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

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

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

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

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).

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

That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.