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Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

As I got older, I had more experience with borders. Some literal - living in the dramatically blue misty mountains on the line between North Carolina and Tennessee, and living in California - home to expats, transplants, and refugees from both sides of innumerable borders.

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.