It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

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

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Politics isn't in my nature.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'