One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.

Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.

As a reader, I do not like to have everything handed to me. Because after a while it gets formulaic and I'm thinking, "If this is so thought through, then why do I need to read it. It's done!" It becomes a beach book at a certain point.

I'm still vulnerable and still weak.

I get off on anticipating and waiting much more than I get off on the actual event.

I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.