Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But I want to acknowledge that with love and hate it's not simply one or the other. It's at least two, three, four, five different emotions existing at once, side by side, a broad spectrum of things alive.

I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have something to write about, and you only have something to write about if you do something.

I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.

On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.