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

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

You need to be distracted.

Even today, I'm much more comfortable dressed in a male kind of way.

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.

I was not - even the notion of "could not" seems to suggest a moment of recognition, but it was such a repressed dimension - I was not able to NOT wear a shirt like my brothers could. My brothers would, in the heat, run around shirtless, and I wouldn't do that, obviously.