When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

I like to travel and connect.

Everything interests me.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.