I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.