Im here and he’s not. That I’m alive and he’s…

And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we’ll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.

I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. This—this—this is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run.

What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.

Who are the real monsters?

Three years ago hadn’t been the right time for them. Now certainly was.

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

Most analysts are SO SMART and have amazing ideas, but they can't convey their genius ideas to others.

...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.

To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami.

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

Though liberals have portrayed themselves throughout the past several decades as champions of the homeless, they are actually guilty of having created and perpetuated their condition.

... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.