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

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).

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

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

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

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