“Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.”

“You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose.”

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.”

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”

“I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is―a politician.”