Places I want to go back to:
1. Ramallah, Palestine
2. New York City
3. Florence, Italy
4. San Francisco
5. that Caribbean restaurant in the West Village
6. St. Catharines, ON, Canada
7. Oxford, MS
8. Sapelo Island, GA
9. Savannah, GA
10. Seoul
Places I want to go where I've never been before:
1. Asheville, NC
2. Portland, OR
3. Taipei, TW
4. Nairobi, Kenya
5. Gaza
6. London, UK
7. Prague, Czech Republic
8. Greensboro, NC
9. Havana, Cuba
People, now dead, who I wish I could have met:
1. Walter Cronkite
2. John Updike
3. Flannery O'Connor
4. David Foster Wallace
5. Jean-Michel Basquiat
6. Lewis Thomas
7. Harper Lee
8. Langston Hughes
Lies I have told (a partial list):
1. Me? No!
2. I promise I won't.
3. I will not do it again.
4. I didn't do this.
5. This time it REALLY wasn't me.
6. I quit.
7. I DID like it!
8. It tastes really good!
9. I just lost it somewhere.
10. I will find it.
11. I didn't hear anything.
12. I never opened it.
13. That one's not mine.
14. That was completely a joke.
15. I don't mind.
16. I would tell you if it looked bad.
17. You are very special to me.
18. I've never felt this way before.
19. I don't deserve you.
20. I can find someone better than you in a second!