We Dreamt Of Light, But Hoped For

Chicago Has Very Few Public Spaces Where People Are Encouraged To Get Together. It's Partly To Prevent Riots, And Also To Segregate A City With A History Of Racial Segregation.

Arabs Are A Complete Abstraction In The Propaganda World And All The Death And Destruction Is Completely Unreal To Americans.

All The Lives I Could Live, All The People I Will Never Know, Never Will Be, They Are Everywhere. That Is All That The World Is.

Whatever Solidarity I Have Established With Other Writers Individually, It Is Usually Organized Around Books. We Connected As Readers, As It Were, Not Writers.

I Loved You Because There Was No Other Place For Me To Go. We Were Married Because We Did Not Know What Else To Do With Each Other. You Never Knew Me, Nothing About Me, What Died Inside Me, What Lived Invisibly.