You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it’s indelibly her own.

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.