- The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
- I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.
- I don’t know what it’s like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that bonds you as opposed to being Jewish from Poland, or Jewish from Hungary.
- If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.
- Here’s the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader’s attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.
- I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
- Sooner or later we’ve all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we’re doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.
- I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.
- I don’t have an ideal reader. I’m trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.
- I can’t be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I’m bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.
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