There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.