As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy or all kinds of tragic things. There are some people whose children haven't talked to them in fifteen years. There's all kind of meshugaas in this world.

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

A joke is necessary at this time.

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