I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.

Don't write poems to make girls like you, because it will not make them like you but it will give them something to quote back at you later in life.

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

You can't connect the dots looking forward

I don't really know why I went to law school.

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

It's always inspiring to watch live music.

I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one.

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

Love is divine only and difficult always.

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

Leaving GH was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.