I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the Lo…

- Naomi Wallace

If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.

- Naomi Wallace

I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from our vocabulary and is never …

- Naomi Wallace

You can't break my heart. It's made of water.

- Naomi Wallace