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

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

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.

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.

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

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