No matter how sheltered [my students] are, no matter how their parents try to do right by them, every single one of them, you know, every single one of us, that's what we all face. And so it's made me - that's the one change I've marked in myself - it's made me change in the way I relate to my students. I've become a different teacher in that way.

I don't know where to place my body. Everyone notices that about me. I'm very restless.

The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and incitement of specular curiosity and fascination.

From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is always female, and the book comes from a separate gender dimension than the concrete male world that, as you pointed out, has been surrounding me since I was an infant.

In the same way, the people whom I most abhor, I abhor them for elements that I abhor in myself.

I don't really get into the power sufficiently, and that's also a problem for me.

I came to realize this weird projection: you are much more passionate about hating something outside of you when you know that something is also in you.