But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.

Want! You must want something. What do you want?

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.