This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.

It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.

It's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether people associate it or not, fear of immigration is completely related to climate change, because the mass migrations that are happening, the war in Syria, all of these structural human migrations are related to climate change.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.