I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
“Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.”
“In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.”