Dullness Is A Kind Of Luxury.

The Traveler Feels At Home Everywhere, Because She Is Never At Home Anywhere.

I Feel Empowered To Be A Different Kind Of Writer. The Longer I Stay Here, The More Light Filters Into My Work. I Feel Very American. I Belong.

In Other Words, My Literary Agenda Begins By Acknowledging That America Has Transformed Me. It Does Not End Until I Show How I (and The Hundreds Of Thousands Like Me) Have Transformed America.

A Farmer Is Dependent On Too Many Things Outside His Control; It Makes For Modesty.

[on Her Writing Agenda:] Make The Familiar Exotic; The Exotic Familiar.