There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.

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.

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

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.

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 human heart is a dark forest.