“We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created---civilization, courtesy, decency---is a mesh that comes from those drives and also contains and tames them. Whatever feels good is not necessarily good. But what I learn is whatever is bad is not necessarily alien to me. Or to you.”
― Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
― Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
“I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.”
― Desierto: Memories of the Future
― Desierto: Memories of the Future
“I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.”
― Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
― Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
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