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.

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.

What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

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

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

If you want to do things, do things.