I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.
“It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.”
“Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.”