I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

I need, therefore I imagine.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

How quickly a moment sinks into the past.

He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.

We have learned nothing from the genome.

I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff.

I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to.

Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and they end with no lasting memory made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life.

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.