If You Can't Go Home, There Is

When I Was Young, I Was All About Personal Sovereignty And That Junk, Because There Was No Privacy And The Available Ideologies Were Collective, Both Socialism/communism And Nationalism.

I Don't Know The Numbers, But Roughly Half Of The People Who Came Through Ellis Island Returned Home. They Came Here To Make Money, Not To Make History.

In Some Way There Is No Real Life. It's Always The Story Of Your Life That You're Living.

Time Does Nothing But Hand You Down Shabbier And Older Things.

I Tend To Wait For True Stories To Mature Into Fiction. Most Of My Fiction Grew Out Of A Long-germinating Real-life Situation.