I want a theory to come out to guide policy.

People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.

Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.

I usually feel something before I know it.

If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.

Much of the visualizing is imaginative.

People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way.

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

We don't have the luxury of thinking ... Some people make all the decisions for us

I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

We think we believe what we know, but we only truly believe what we feel.

Don't worry about the masses. That's how you make a memorable moment.

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.

Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.