I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

Living where I live New York I don't think anyone's going to make a fuss. But it is more deeply satisfying because it's of your place and means that you aren't forgotten; someone's noticed what you have been doing with your life.

And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.