Most of the Womens Libbers I knew really didnt want to have a piece of the mens pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didnt even want a slice of.

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

Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

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

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that's all.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.