E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.
Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

