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

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

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

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.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

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

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