God is a God of Lovingkindness.

I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.

When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.