I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.

I spend most of my time writing.

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.