There Is A Kind Of Euphoria Of

I Am Determined That My Children Should Have No Financial Security. It Ruins People Not Having To Earn Money.

People Who Have Fabulous Childhoods Have This Sense That Nothing Is Ever Going To Be That Good Again. With Me, I Have The Sense That Nothing Is Going To Be That Bad.

I Was Brought Up An Atheist And Have Always Remained So. But At No Time Was I Led To Believe That Morality Was Unimportant Or That Good And Bad Did Not Exist. I Believe Passionately In The Need To Distinguish Between Right And Wrong And Am Somewhat Confounded By Being Told I Need God, Jesus Or A Clergyman To Help Me To Do So.

I Can Understand Why Those Primitive Desert People Think A Camera Steals Their Soul. It Is Unnatural To See Yourself From The Outside.

It's True That I Wouldn't Have Written The First Book Had My Sister And Mother Been Alive. It Was My Way Of Continuing Our Conversation. It's Also This Jewish Thing Of Naming And Remembering People, And I Think There Is A Sense Of Keeping That Side Of Life Going.