Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.