I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

To stay on the map you've got to keep showing up.