I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

I loved the comradeship of the sixties and the seventies, and I still maintain friendships with the people I worked with then - the ones that are still alive. That's one of the great gifts of our political movements, great friendships . . . and also a few enmities.

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

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

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

Art's too long and life's too short.

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