Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make these actually-existing people, including the actually-existing person with my name, into a believable person on the page. And that requires distance. That requires not being right up against the events you're talking about.

Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

In today's US, it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.