There are things I don't like, like sitting at the head of the class. It makes me uncomfortable. I'll do it in a seminar if I have to, but with a workshop, I try to put myself in the circle somewhere. Because that hopefully frees up some people by making somebody else sit at the nominal head of the table.

If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.

It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.

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

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 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.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.