The Best Thing About Writing Programs Is

A Couple Of Years I Taught In Graduate Programs At Nyu And Columbia, In The Early Eighties.

But On The Other Hand, I Don't Actively Seek Out Stories Or Hunt Them Down.

We Are Not Buried In History, But Surrounded By It. You Can't Avoid Our Behavior Being Shaped By It, To A Considerable Degree. We Have This Fantasy That We Are Free Of History. This Allows Us Not To See The Circumstances, The Historical Circumstances Of Other People.

My Major Allegiance Has Been To Storytelling, Not To History.

Luck Can't Last A Lifetime Unless You Die Young.