When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!

The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

I can't wait for both my daughters to be old enough to read all my books. I loved it every time I saw my parents acting like more than just my parents. And I'm looking forward to that with my daughters too. I am looking forward to having them discover me as someone completely other than their mother.

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.