I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anything to showcase diversity. It is a condition of life and art in Europe, contained in every random sample.

I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.

Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.