What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.
I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
In another project I worked on just a few years ago, a staging of Peter and the Wolf, which I translated into Yiddish and sang on a stage in New York City. Thank God very few people knew I was doing it! But the kids in the audience loved it - even though it was all in Yiddish.