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

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.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

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).

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.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

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.