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

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

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

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.

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.

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.