In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees.

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

Immigrants, as troubling as they are to some people, are an integral part of what the American Dream is supposed to be. They're understandable to a considerable number of Americans.

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.

I've never stopped being a refugee.

Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.

If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

It's rude to stare, but the great thing about staring at a sedated person is that they don't know you're doing it.

Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

Doncaster will hit Villa with fire and broomstick.

DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed.

Being pregnant is supposed to be the happiest time in your life.

What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my personal life.

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.