“Trumps America is not America: not todays or tomorrows, but yesterdays.Trumps America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a v...”

“I had been fortified by trauma, the way a bone, once broken, grows back stronger than it had been.”

“The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.”

“It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.”

“Children see God every day; they just don't call it that. It's the summer sky painted with cumulus clouds by day and sequined with a million stars by night. It's the sweet whispers of sweet gum tre...”

“A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or its really hard to catch.”

“The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.”

“If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.”

“I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.”

“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.”

“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.”

“The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but act...”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”