Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.

I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.

"I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not."

I think I was born with a suitcase.