If you're a writer, you're always working.
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.