People aren't social. They're tribal. Race doesn't exist, but tribes are real..

My strong suit is that I've been willing to risk on the page to get somewhere interesting..

It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one..

Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom..

I look white to a lot of people. And I'm not. I'm African-American. I'm mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because that definition fits. So, you kn….

For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So ….

The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find yo….

Everybody just gets on my nerves after like, 10 minutes, you know..

I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear, and even more dissipates. I want to….

I'm really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everyth….

My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book..

I love the idea of biracial. I actually don't use the word biracial. I tend to use mixed. Biracial to me accentuates the word race, and, you know, I ….

Long-haul trucking. Just roaming the country, alone, with audiobooks and podcasts, sleeping in the back of the cab, showering at gas stations at 4 a.….

I've been writing forever, 20 years..