When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.

In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.

You may be a lady but you are still the man!

What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.