The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.