We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers.

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.