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

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

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.

I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I lived in a neighborhood where it was brought to my eyes every single day that people didn't live like me. Every day I knew that many of my friends "got relief." That was important in my thinking about the world, thinking that not everybody lived that way.

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

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.