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

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.

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

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

The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world.

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.