As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.

An envy of that one consummate partSwept me, who mock. Whether I laugh or weep, Some inner silences are at my heart.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

And whereas [Donald] Trump let two or three hanging curveballs go by, [Mike] Pence will not, unless they have a strategy to let them go by.

Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.

My dad played in different clubs and open mic nights. But he mostly walked dogs. A lot of dogs.

I was in America, someone wanted a photo with me, I put my arm around her and she told me not to touch her.

Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.