I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

You’d have been scared too if that big troglodyte had put his hands on you. He smelled like dirty socks and store brand cola.” Chet Andrews

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

I loved medieval architecture when I was very small I don't know why.

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.