That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.

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

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.

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

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

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