I never learned the answer, nor did the answer matter, for one of the eerie and liberating aspects of broadcast discourse is that nothing one says will alter in the slightest either the form or the le...
I just can't see the upside in this, I heard myself say by way of explanation. Later he said that if John had been sitting in the office he would have found this funny, as he himself had found it. Of...
I had believed in the logic of popular songs. I had looked for the silver lining. I had walked on through the storm.
I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay.
I could make promises to myself and to other people and there would be all the time in the world to keep them. I could stay up all night and make mistakes, and none of it would count.
Huey Newton laid down his life for us, Stokely Carmichael had said the same night. But of course Huey Newton had not yet laid down his life at all, was just here in the Alameda County Jail waiting to...
He would say something and she would say something and before either of them knew it they would be playing out a dialogue so familiar that it drained the imagination, blocked the will, allowed them to...
Everything that was said to me I seemed to have heard before, and I could no longer listen.
En épocas difíciles, me habían dicho desde niña, lee, aprende, prepárate, recurre a la literatura.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.
As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs.
Anthony Lewis had written in The New York Times in September of 1975, only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible becaus...
Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed credentials, it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginning of...
After Princeton, the years seem like a blur, but the days seem more like rapid fire. - Donald Rumsfeld in Year of Magical Thinking
See the question now as the equivalent of a cry of helpless rage, another way of saying How could this have happened when everything was normal.
Perhaps something else besides, for Sacramento is California, and California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is trouble...
When I saw the photograph I realized for the first time why the obituaries had so disturbed me.I had allowed other people to think he was dead.I had allowed him to be buried alive.
When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which w...
We wished them happiness, we wished them health, we wished them love and luck and beautiful children. On that wedding day, July 26, 2003, we could see no reason to think that such ordinary blessings w...
We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see,we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.