“It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown.”
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“My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again.”
“Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.”
“A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.”
“A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.”
“Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.”
“I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed the mysterious ground substance where the secret mechanisms of cell life might be found.”
“There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.”
“Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.”
“As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.”
“O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.”
“The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.”
“Like Spain, I am bound to the past.”
“O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.”
“Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.”
“Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.”
“From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.”
“Books are the best type of the influence of the past.”
“Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.”
“My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.”