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There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had.

But the thing is that, in the end, we each must decide how comfortable we are with how much we hurt other people

Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

The wind is calling in a voice I remember

People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes

As with much of the world's problems, they become public
or much more of interest
the moment they begin to impact the West.

Sometimes it is enough to know that it is difficult.

Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face.

He too, it seemed, had come to believe that he could somehow escape history. That it was possible, and even desirable, to live in a perpetual present.

My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.

Story is powerful. Story is fluid and it belongs to nobody.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

She who had been taken and taken and taken. And now the one time she took for herself, the one time she had choice in the matter, it was taken away.

There had been many such experiments when he worked in South Africa, in Vlakplaas, a notorious apartheid death camp.

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

Anything a man can do, I can fix.

This is the prevalence of ritual. To remember something that cannot be forgotten.

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.

Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression
how long before the pot boiled over.

as his mother told Grandma Marie, there are no words for some