...people with nothing to declare carry the most.

The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am I just fulfilling my own expectations - or even worse, somebody else's?

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.