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

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

If you want to do things, do things.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.