The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.

I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.