I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.