I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.

The photograph of my brother that is in this album shows a young man, beautiful and perfect in the way of young people, for young people are always perfect and beautiful until they are not, until the moment they just are not.

People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin.

I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head.