How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.