Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.

And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and the blood and flesh. He reached for her, a dangerous stranger in a city of dangerous strangers, but she turned away from him and walked unsteadily through the crowd. How many loveless people walk among the barely loved?

Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.

Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.