Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with

She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.

And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.