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.

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

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.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.

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