The anger and fear are so global. And of course, we live where we live and there's a hierarchy to who is worth what. It's been going on for a long, l….

I forget how beautiful and calm California is. It's not so much about the place, but also the age that I came to the place and, well, other things. N….

Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things hav….

I think there's nothing new going on. Except that, you're even more public than you've ever been.There's some good and some bad to that..

I think everybody focuses on race, but it's about a ton of things, and I just see these things as all interrelated and all interwoven in a weird way..

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door..

Maybe I'm just sensitive to that person who's on the outside..

If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to oper….

I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize]..

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it..

I just rode cross-country and the thing I noticed is just how afraid everyone is, and how nervous and scared and angry people are. From my point of v….

I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything. It's not something I feel comfortable doing. But sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know,….

There are certain things that happen in New York that just don't happen anywhere else..

The thing is that it's always a constant reminder of how violent this country has been, always has been, you know. I'm still frustrated with these co….

I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about groups, how this stuff w….

I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make ….

I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when we're all together. It's s….

If I'm in LA, I'm close to home, and that just brings up all these other things, good and bad. There is a reason why I am not there ..

I'll say this, and it'll sound like bullshit, but it's not: I don't really pay attention to this stuff [Man Booker Prize] very much. I think part of ….

I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me..

We don't act the same in every situation. Things bleed into all kinds of other things, from behavior to identity..