"I have the right to target American and Israeli civilians anyplace in the world...doesn't America come here to kill our innocents and children. We have the right to attack them at their homes just like they attack us in our homes."

"To be a child is something one learns, as one learns the names of rivers or the kings of France. Childhood, for a child, is a sort of falseness, woodenness, stoniness, a lesson recited. Many children …"

"Children understand very well that in each woman, in each man, in each child, there is capacity of waking up, of understanding, and of loving. Many children have told me that they cannot show me anyon…"

"“Place and history are central to the fiction I write, both in the broad, general sense and in detailed particulars. Rural North America, regional cultures in critical economic flux, the images of an …"

"I remember the shouts of "SCAB!" as my father went to work during the great dermatologists strike."