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.

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.

Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.