It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).

These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!