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.

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

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

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

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

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

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