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You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.

I come from garbage.

If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA.

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.

We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.