There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

I had lost something in my youth and made money instead.

If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.

Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that. I think the fact that it has so many layers underneath the contemporary one intrigues me.