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

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are not as well off.