I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

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.

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are).

Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it is a Republican politics of vicious, vicious partisan [stuff] that has completely poisoned what we would call the political rhetorical sphere. All of these things come together in a perfect storm.

The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.

[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.