...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.

[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.