Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone

I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.

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.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.