It's only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is.

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.

There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.

Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.

Yale's endowment became a metaphor for the kind of training it offered its graduates, namely, how to exploit the global marketplace, and technology, for your own interests, while maintaining a smokescreen of virtuous intent.

Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives.