None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?

Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry." If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical."

The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.