I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in his magical realism. So I don't think we have to be hyper-realistic. But we have to understand the pressures that undergird the lives of the characters within that novel.

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.

Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.