A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

There are so many cities in every single city.

Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.