There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.

I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.