Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.