After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.