In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

I'm often surprised that, you know, you encounter all types of humanity. And very often, there are some very decent people who don't stereotype even when you might, in your own mind, have stereotyped them to think that they will.

In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.