It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words.

I think there's nothing new going on. Except that, you're even more public than you've ever been.There's some good and some bad to that.

I'm very fortunate. I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything.

Like when you have the right title for something you're writing and you get lost - you can always go back to the title and go, "Yeah, that's what this is about."

I had a student once come up to me and we were talking about this incident, and, of course, I never had the right thing to say. But later on, I realized I should have said: Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

I'm doing all these interviews with the British press, the Italian press, and others. They all want to talk about this stuff. I don't have a stance; I don't have a go-to thing to say about any of this.

I'm healthier in California, probably a little happier, maybe.