She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it an unforgettable thing, making it their own

If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one.

A little thinking is a dangerous thing.

These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.

Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The condition of the body is also the state of the mind.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

Biding time is easy -- and gets you nowhere.

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

I dont ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close them.

The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.