The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

The older I get, the more I feel.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.