When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body.

I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.

In short, for me - I'm kind of projecting onto you - distraction has become a modus vivendi, a way of life. Rather than complaining, I am recognizing that I couldn't do what I wanted to do because I'm distracted.

One should be able to teach adequately and feel good about it.

I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly getting up, sitting down, picking this or that up. You can't do that and be a writer. You need to be able to sit still.

I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her.

My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life.