I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

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.

Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.

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

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

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