Lydia Millet Quotes
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I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil.
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I love irony.
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People who are obsessed amuse me.
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About half of all potential future global warming emissions from United States fossil fuels lie in oil, gas and coal buried beneath our public lands, controlled by the federal government and owned by the American people - and not yet leased to private industry for fuel extraction.
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Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein.
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Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not.
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Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in.
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Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?
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Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.
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I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?
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I never seem to leave L.A., though I left L.A.
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You're lucky if people like your book, and the more people that like it, the luckier I feel.
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Wyoming, home to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, is also the country's largest coal producer and one of its largest gas drillers. Two-thirds of the state's gas-drilling rigs are on public lands in the increasingly industrialized Greater Green River Basin.
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Historically, grizzlies ranged from Alaska to Mexico, with at least 50,000 bears living in the western half of the contiguous United States. With European colonization, the bears were shot, poisoned, and trapped to the brink of extinction.
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We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.
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I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.
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At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.
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L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.
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It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.
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At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time.
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'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.
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After numerous generations of people dedicated to killing wolves on the North American continent, one generation devoted itself to letting wolves live.
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In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States.
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I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.