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

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

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

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.

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

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

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