fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.