Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.

Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.

Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it

A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.

Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for me to speak of what happened. Such things have little to do with words, so little, in fact, that it seems almost pointless to try to express them. If anything, I would say that we were falling into each other, that we were falling so fast and so far that nothing could catch us.