If I'm meeting somebody for the first time, I don't look them up on Wikipedia, or I try not to, because I would not want somebody to be thinking they knew me based on that. It's like even private citizens have to deal with this persona phenomenon.

I focus more on the spiritual or psychic gains.

Sexuality is a place where people are very vulnerable and can be experiencing and embodying very raw forces that they don't really understand and there's a question of how much you should control and how much you should play with those and what those forces really are, how you really feel about them. That's perennial.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending.

I think people hold back all kinds of things. And in a way, they just want to be nice. They want to be civil.

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.