Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

Anger has a way of returning.

I prefer the 1950s where people were like, "I'm a white supremacist, and that's who I am." Now people want to burn a cross on your lawn and call themselves not racists.

Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly possible.

I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker is a great example. Same goes for Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.

Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.