I've never gotten used to winter and never will.

People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin.

I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

It's too easy to say this or that is "race," and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.

I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's what a house costs. And I was thinking, "How can it be?" And I was thinking, "What am I doing? Am I going to be Niall Ferguson, that horrible man?