I'm all for sex. Seven nights a week. Days, too.
For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.
For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.
It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror of that kind of incompleteness. Writing this book, I tried not to think about my father, which does no one any good fictionally. I did try to imagine not just the horror of that moment, but the horror of having witnessed it, and the lifelong void. And I think that's what's so frightening.
The truth, finally, is who can tell it.
Islam - a religion horribly misrepresented by terrorists, which is like the IRA saying they represented Irish people. Islam is a BEAUTIFUL religion. would make you cry it's so beautiful. . . and gentle.
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
The way to the organic, active peace of brotherhood leads through the hearts of peacemakers who will knit together, with patience and self-sacrifice, the shorn and tangled fibers of human aspirations, faith, and hopes, who will transcend the fears and dangers of an adventure of trust. The road to unity is the road of repentance.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.