Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.

Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.

New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.

I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.

Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.