We write about what we don't know about what we know.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.

I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.

Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.