I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.

There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.

I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!

To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.