"Kindness" can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I felt I had to present his [Donald Trump's] supporters in as fair a light as possible - many of them hadn't been interviewed before and that entailed some interviewer-courtesy in the editing and so on.

I'm not a natural criticizer - I prefer to like and praise and so on.

I think when you get to export your creative impulse into something, it kind of lessens that busy energy that can be so confrontational and pissy.

Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).

We have not been energetic enough - white people haven't - in pursuing racial equity.

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can deny it.

In my personal and spiritual life, I reject that. I don't believe in that. I'm always trying to get my mind into a less judgmental place, making less rigid judgments about things like "perverse" versus "pure." But in terms of prose, those sorts of oppositions seem to work.