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A landscape values people at the level that it values other things.

It is February in Ukraine. Juliana tells the reporter she just wants to live in her country.

My wife fell in love with a dancer. A woman. I came here to get away.

The neighbors were Ukrainians with bad tempers and owned guns.

At nineteen I lived for three months as an earnest cocaine addict.

I could throw one of these rocks at the moon and watch it fall.

They wrapped him in bandages from all three kits. The old man watched them.

“You could come, too! No one’s forcing you to go to fucking China.”

I will leave the pills in their bottles, I will leave the bottles by my bed.

It changes nothing. It’s nasty shit, and you’ve gotta get clean.

I’d done what no woman of my race and social station had ever done.

Sam was like family. He was the angel of my writing life in every word.

Jayne Anne Phillips recalls her friend, the legendary Sam Lawrence.

I never left my wife, and she never left me, but this isn’t exactly true.

Barth looked after his students beyond anything expected of him.

Suddenly John was there, in slim blue jeans and a rough white shirt.

He says the word robbery and you don’t know if he’s asking or telling.

There’s something about traveling by plane. People tell their secrets.

One of the most important human capacities is compassion.

He ached to move into and out of her body and make her feel him fiercely.

I put my hand on my stomach and had an image of the melting snowman.

Do we hunger after conflict as much as we hunger after justice?

Takis brought down the demons that would pursue him the rest of his life.

If he wanted to kiss Sophie tonight, he probably shouldn’t steal from her.

There’s no studying for this. I think souls must exist in wanted things.

“Is that your banana?” the short cop asked her.

Each Kardashian is completely capable of being alone at night.

This comb smells like tea gone cold, weighs less than a vein pumped full.

“This is no vacation,” I told friends and reluctant donors.

They give me a pitying look, as if I am alone, and they are invincible.