I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
“I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.”
“If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.”