It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.