“Paradise is never innocent.”

“Money is a country all its own.”

“Joan Didion was a master of dissecting chaos with elegance”

“Every language is a love affair, a way of falling into someone else.”

“I must try to live in the present and not in the past. But I am haunted, always.”

“The most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed.”

"Memory, in my opinion, is a curse. But it’s also the curse we love.”

“There is no escape from this place: it is you.”

"The border is not a line. It’s an act."