The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

Pissing in a river, watching it rise.

It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

No one knows how powerful technology is.

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.