For me, the battle isn't Hillary [Clinton] vs. [Bernie] Sanders. And I understand that for some people that's the battle. But for me, more than anything, it's stopping a Republican president.

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.

The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.

I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind of got to really playing with language in any formal way probably until I was in my mid-twenties.

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

It's never the changes we want that change everything.