Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, 'There, you sons of bitches, don't lay a finger on it. That is a finished product.'" "But any country is still in the making. Always. That's just history, people have to see that.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.