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

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.

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

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

I'm seventy-five now. I also have the peculiar luck of having a sister and brother who are fourteen and sixteen years older than me. Their health is not good. It couldn't be at that age. But their spirits are. Both my brother and my sister are an example to me.

Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.

I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.