Lawyer even sounds like liar.

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.

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

The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it, you can't run because the fear is an anchor in your chest.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.

I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience cannot escape the political.