I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet.

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

I think there's a rule that once you want to live somewhere, you can't find a job.

You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."

I think the erotic is very spiritual, and I never see that spiritual dimension when you look at collections of erotica. That's always missing for me.

Everything is holding its breath inside me. Everything is waiting to explode like Christmas. I want to be all new and shiny. I want to sit out bad at night, a boy around my neck and the wind under my skirt. Not this way, every evening talking to the trees, leaning out my window, imagining what I can't see.

If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.