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

A psychiatrist once asked me to draw a picture of my family. This is when I was a member of a family of four. I drew the three other people in the family first, bodies and heads. And then, last, I began to draw myself - but gave up.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

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 used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.

Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look at flowers, I go look at the garden, I go look at a museum, but it's all coming back to writing.