“A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.”

“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.”

“Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.”I laughed. “No problemo.”

“Anything can happen, and anything does;”

“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.”

“Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all.One.Two.Three.Blink.”