All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!

There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.

To start with, look at all the books.

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.