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

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

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

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

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

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

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).