I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)

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

I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)

They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

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

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.