I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?

We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.

I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.