My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.