Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.

I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.

Fewer publishers mean you have a limited set of aesthetics, so you know who can and can't send your work to. You have more situations where you take the offer or don't get published or you learn to self-publish.

I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there.

People with antisocial personality disorders aren't automatically bad - they simply approach the world with a more ruthless set of lenses. The lack of empathy or very weak empathy and the ability to read other people's weak spots can be a flammable combination when you get in the way of something they want. But they aren't a different species. They're a part of our spectrum.