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

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.

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

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

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

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