Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.