Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.

I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.

I hate that word dysfunction.