All Tastes Are Expressions Of Belief.

It's Difficult To Tell The Truth About How A Book Begins. The Truth, As Far As It Can Be Presented To Other People, Is Either Wholly Banal Or Too Intimate.

...they Cannot Escape Their History Any More Than You Yourself Can Lose Your Shadow.

[george Saunders] Is Very Precise About What He Is Doing. There Isn't A Thing Left To Chance.

This Is What A Woman Is: Unadorned, After Children And Work And Age, And Experience-these Are The Marks Of Living.

I Like Books That Don't Give You An Easy Ride. I Like The Feeling Of Discomfort. The Sense Of Being Implicated.