Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.
Adjectives are the curse of America.
It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.