You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'