But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one where I sail-" I know, on a boat you made yourself.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late