It Is When You Are

To The Extent That I Come From A Deeply Religious Tradition And Have Been Contending With Those Beginnings All Of My Life - That Constitutes The Subject Of Much Of My Early Fiction.

... An Artist Is A Person First. He Is An Individual. If There Is No Person, There Is No Artist.

I Think That To A Very Great Extent We Are Partners With The Divine In This Enterprise Called History. That Is An Ongoing Relationship, And There Is Absolutely No Guarantee That Things Will Automatically Work Out To Our Best Advantage.

Come, Let Us Have Some Tea And Continue To Talk About Happy Things.

In Russia I Went To A Great Yeshiva, And In America I Work In A Carnival.