I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.

America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.

Today, more people are crossing various borders in order to survive, thrive, change their lives. Even if you don't cross the border, with demographic shifts, the border sometimes crosses you.

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants are speaking up.

Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.

In the war on terrorism, the immigrant is often the scapegoat.

That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .

Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.

It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic.

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

A principled person’s greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.

Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.

The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things... after the weather.

One cannot guess the real difficulties of a problem before having solved it.

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

Even in normal life, I'm not the skinniest model.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!