Laurie Helgoe

If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.

I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.

I loved the study of psychology. I didn't love seeing patient after patient. I was perpetually overstimulated, busy decoding everything I took in.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.