I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

We write about what we don't know about what we know.

I loved the comradeship of the sixties and the seventies, and I still maintain friendships with the people I worked with then - the ones that are still alive. That's one of the great gifts of our political movements, great friendships . . . and also a few enmities.

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.

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

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

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