Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

chaos: it has no plural.