It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.

I love the idea of biracial. I actually don't use the word biracial. I tend to use mixed. Biracial to me accentuates the word race, and, you know, I don't really care for it.

The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.

Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.

People aren't social. They're tribal. Race doesn't exist, but tribes are real.

For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don't know if that matters.

Everybody just gets on my nerves after like, 10 minutes, you know.

I'm really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything's going to be great.

My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book.

My strong suit is that I've been willing to risk on the page to get somewhere interesting.

I've been writing forever, 20 years.

Music lifts the soul to spiritual realms.

Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

The worst thing you can do is make money at the expense of losing your time.

One quick glance in the mirror is enough for a lifetime.

London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.

Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

They wanted me to be a Washington.