La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the past.

Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.

One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you’ve learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning." Memoir From Antproof Case

Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.