You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.

This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.