There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.