The Culture gives us so much, but in fact it’s only taking things away from us, lobotimizings everybody in it, taking away their choices, their potential for being really good or even slightly bad.

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

Every single day I wake up in the morning, and I wonder if this is some kind of amazing dream that's gonna end all of a sudden. And, you know, I'm gonna wake up and be somewhere else.

I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

We need to believe Donald Trump when he bullies and threatens to throw out every immigrant in the country.

I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

On health care, your freedom to choose your own doctor, without Obamacare.