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

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 can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.