Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.

I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.

Be lovely and do no harm.

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.

By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.