I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

I regret how much I believed in the future.

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?