Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Death steals everything except our stories.

Zen is the vehicle of reality.

Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.

What cannot be said, will get wept.

The days are stacked against what we think we are.

Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.