Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.
I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.
A person doesn't mourn forever.
The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.
I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'
As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train schedule, to the punch-clock. And I need to read a lot to make my pages happen.