Memory is satisfied desire.

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.

I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me.

We’re all ridiculous… all of us. It’s as though we use a lit torch to search for light. You are enough. Know this and proceed through life accordingly.

Dear Cake, You're AWESOME. That is all

Don't let anything be too much for you

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

If animals could speak, mankind would weep.

When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

People think the FDA is protecting them -- it isn't. What the FDA is doing, and what people think it's doing, are as different as night and day.

If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it.