Katherine Boo

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

I'm not squeamish.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.