And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

Old folks are the nation.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.