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The first thing the Chinese ask you when they meet you is: 'How much money do you make?' It's a legitimate question to ask in China.
There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.
Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and... →
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets... →
I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I've rowed in various places, including the... →
I'm not confident, and yet I'm oddly confident. You have to have a certain amount of ego to be a writer in the first place, and to write... →
If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme attention to visual detail... →
It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite direction... →
My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try to find faith. She believed in trying... →
My mother was not what anyone would call sweet, and she wasn't conventional. When my brother couldn't find his shoes one morning, she said... →
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters... →
To me, the remarkable thing is it's pretty much unanimous the way blind people have been perceived in all cultures and for millennia. The first... →
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