... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.