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.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

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.

These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

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

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

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.