Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.