The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.

If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.

Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

Each man creates god in his own image.