All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.