“I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.” — Sylvia Plath Quote

“I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.”

“I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.”

“A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.”

“I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.”

“You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.”

“Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.”