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

In a way, this kind of insight or recognition often permeates the way I think of character, how I plot action, and the way in which I use imagery, seeing binaries as false.

Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on the priority list.

The foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped.

I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing."

It is true that my characters have sex.

One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted.