I'm most tired after I read, after I've just done a performance, but what I try to do is to fuel and eat a really healthy meal before I perform. I want to have enough energy to talk to that last person.

I don't close myself to the possibility of someplace outside the United States, but it would have to be someplace with an indigenous community, because that's where I feel at home.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.

If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.