There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.

Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.