For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by.
I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.
I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.
I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?
Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.
I love the 'Underworld' movies because the vampires aren't automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.
I would say I'm a medium-sized 'Star Trek' fan. I love the universe that it's created.
I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.
