Information is control.

I wanted to be an oceanographer, actually. It's a way of going underwater. I've always been interested in how deep it was, you know.

I lead a very conventional life.

Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.

I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?