The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me.

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.