My Mother Answers All My Fan Mail.

What Helps Me Is Watching Other People Negotiate Loss. I Think About How We Dropped A Bomb On People In Hiroshima And 150,000 People Were Killed In One Night. Those People Had To Mourn And They Had To Rebuild Their City Right Away.

I Think It's Good For People To See The Positive Beauty That Can Flower From The Deepest Grieving.

New York Has Closed Itself Off To The Young And The Struggling. But There Are Other Cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City Has Been Taken Away From You. So My Advice Is: Find A New City.

I Don't Think Anything Can Prepare You For One's Losses.

I Longed To Read Everything I Possibly Could, And The Things I Read In Turn Produced New Yearnings.