Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

How little we understandof the gifts we have been givenor the shape of the pathwe took to reach our salvation.

I am successful and I love the fact that being successful allows me to choose the 'when', 'why', 'where' and 'how' of spending my time and energy.

Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now!

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

The love withheld is always the love we long for most.