I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.

I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.

I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.

I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and then as independent subjects with a post-colonial experience.

At bottom, I'm a cheerful person.