Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.

when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.

When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

I'm very aware that we make these decisions toward love or hate every day. I certainly don't have the stamina to live through each day making only the noblest decisions.