If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible.

I want a theory to come out to guide policy.

The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.

With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.

Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text.

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.