Love depends on mutability, but survival depends on identity.Andrew Solomon
For someone to believe you're native, you often have to enact a stereotype overtly.Andrew Solomon
Sometimes it works to be a chameleon, and sometimes it backfires.Andrew Solomon
One feels happiness and love by proxy, but also grief and hate.Andrew Solomon
To share in another's joy is to have it as your own, and likewise his pain.Andrew Solomon
Every perceived ill is a form of self-betrayal, but also a likely step towards self-definition.Andrew Solomon
Reconciliation with the self is the beginning of all art, and thus of all truth.Andrew Solomon
The gap between implementation and theory is filled by the suffering of the body.Andrew Solomon
There's no such thing as an intelligence too profound to be communicated, even though there may not always be someone capable of getting it.Andrew Solomon
People are neither so good they have no need of improvement, nor so evil they are incapable of it.Andrew Solomon