Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the world we, people who look like me, live in - and by the world, I mean our personal experience of it.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

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

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race as almost everyone else... It is true that I noticed things that no one else seemed to notice. And I think only people who are outsiders do this.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.