The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

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

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.