Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.

I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers.

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.