Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you.

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

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.

Sometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem.

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

John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur.