[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its own white supremacists practices.

You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.

I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

I was surrounded by a lot of male writers of color who have this incredibly bizarre relationship to masculinity. It's like we were all mega-nerds but you would never know that if you listened to the way they talk about themselves.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.