The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.

When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

Which is stronger, politics or love? is like asking, Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling? They are two sides of the same thing.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.