I dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.

When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.

Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

There was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that was a wonderful feeling.