My Country's Main Exports Are Stolen Cars

I Am Itching To Criticize Some Well-regarded Writers' Works, But I Am Not Doing It Because I Am Perfectly Aware That My Critique Could Easily Be Reduced To Envy Or Just Plain Meanness.

Whatever Solidarity I Have Established With Other Writers Individually, It Is Usually Organized Around Books. We Connected As Readers, As It Were, Not Writers.

For People Who Are Displaced, You Can Reconstruct The Story Of Your Life From The Objects You Have Access To, But If You Don't Have The Objects Then There Are Holes In Your Life. This Is Why People In Bosnia - If Anyone Was Running Back Into A Burning House It Was To Salvage Photos.

Washington D.c.! Congress Is Full Of Self-declared Outsiders.

I've Never Had A Stupid Student In My Life. I Never Look Down On My Students. I Never Thought, "look At These People." I Might Argue With Them And I Think That Some Of Them Might Have Misconceptions - That They Might Be Infected By The Intellectual Laziness That Is The Foundation Of American Popular Culture, And Of Capitalism, If You Wish. But Part Of My Job As A Teacher Is To Work With That - Against That.