People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.

To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.

With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.

I usually feel something before I know it.

People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.

I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.