There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.

I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.

I grew up recognizing that there was nobody to give me any advice and that you do your best and if it's not good enough, someday you will come to terms with that.

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.