“The Plaza is a case study in the lengths to which New York’s leaders have gone to find gargantuan sums of money to enact wild new visions for the state.”

“All this is hard to sort out, and two more pieces on the right—a green blob beside a black one—only add to the puzzle.”

“For some months—since I was told about this award—I have been trying to find the point in my life when this fiction stuff and I became friends. I cannot find it.”

“The opera centers on artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera—but not exactly as themselves.”

“A Forrest Gumpian figure.”