The prose is deeply inspired by the tension between post- totalitarianism and consumer democracy. I am constantly probing the soft fleshy parts of the American dream.

If all shy, soulful young women who dreamed of becoming writers for a living actually could do that, imagine the library we would have.

Have you asked yourself why you protect me? Are you as messed up about all this as me?

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.

Never doubt what comes from the heart, your feelings know you better than anything else.

What is easiest to see is often overlooked.

Stress is something that makes you feel you can't be yourself.

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.