My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.