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The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me.

There are lesbians, God knows… if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York… who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

I’m not just another bimbo.

It’s not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of ’em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they’re Asian and I’m Asian.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don’t consider myself a novelist.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.