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.

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

I have been on the margins in terms of having to find a place to live and getting a job, but at some point, and before that point, I always thought no matter where I am, that's the center.