You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.