I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.
Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.