“There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.”

“Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there...”

“The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.”

“How weightless words are when nothing will do.”

“It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”

“Gospel The new grass rising in the hills, the cows loitering in the morning chill, a dozen or more old browns hidden in the shadows of the cottonwoods beside the streambed. I go higher to wh...”