I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

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.

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.

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