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

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

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).

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

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

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.