I saw my parents, as immigrants, try and try and try to take root and get ahead and so yes, 'Sweat' resonates with me incredibly. And I was an outsider. So I know very much about that.

You're always defined in relation to the environment that you're in and to the people that you're around.

Did he who made the lamb make thee?

Well, here we are."Sometimes a statement of the bloody obvious was the only appropriate way forward. As if to give life ceremonious permission to proceed.

A novel is a writer's rant disguised as entertainment...

Even greater than my fear that l was crazy, was my lifelong dread that someone would find out.

It's unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life.

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.

While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.

It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about in the same way. It's more a sexist stereotype than a powerful stereotype.

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment