[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary.

Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

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.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.

A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult oath, one that would follow her into adulthood, to the States and beyond. I will not serve.