It was all those biographies in me yelling, "We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you."

If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Once you've got some words looking back at you, you can take two or three-or throw them away and look for others.

With me, it's story, story, story.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing