No one has the answers, but one thing is true. You got to turn on evil, when its coming after you.
[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Time is how you spend your love.
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
I mean, but obviously, in people's eyes, it still - it can still link Islam to terrorism. I mean, why does it make a difference that they're white?
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.