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.

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

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.

When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.