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'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it.

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.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more important thing is, is it true? Do these things really happen?

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.