I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

Swimming always cleans your soul

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.