Well, it's not all the same, but there are a lot of parallels. I'm not sure how to answer [on psychology background], but I think when I was studying psychology I had a professor and a friend who would talk about "process" all the time. Your process, his process, the group's process. There's some carryover from that discussion to my creative work.

I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about groups, how this stuff works. I bring all that stuff to teaching now.

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.

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.

There are certain things that happen in New York that just don't happen anywhere else.

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

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."