The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world.

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.

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

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.

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

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.