I've been writing forever, 20 years.

People aren't social. They're tribal. Race doesn't exist, but tribes are real.

It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.

My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book.

Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.

For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don't know if that matters.

I look white to a lot of people. And I'm not. I'm African-American. I'm mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because that definition fits. So, you know, I've dealt with the conflict my whole life between how I look and my actual ethnic and racial identity.