Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call paranoid - because they are in such danger. I don't know if it's really paranoia because they are in great danger. Terrible things happen to them, and they lose everything. How could they not become at the very least severely depressed?

The world is abundant with food for us, and with everything we need, if only we just open our eyes. There's so much food that gets thrown out or never harvested.

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

Many people spend the ends of their lives alone, and probably a lot of years in the middle of their lives, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to experience the rewards of solitude.

Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.

I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.