I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced the next page defenseless and unprepared. Writing for me was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.

Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.

Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.