'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.