MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

I want to be a witness to my own time because I've had a sneaking suspicion lately that I'm gonna live a lot longer than most of the people I meet. If I'm gonna be the only one still around to say what happened, I'd better pay close attention now.

The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.

People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.

You have to have coalitions in order to make change in America.