I'm still vulnerable and still weak.

I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the way it always has been with me, whether anticipating a ball game, anticipating a relationship.

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

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.

If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.