There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.

To write has to be related to a drive inside.

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.