The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.

Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America

You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.