We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.

I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.

It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.