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.

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.

My skin was the border between the world and me.

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

I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that.

To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways to connect over a book or books, whatever they may be.

What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.