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.

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

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.