The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.

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.

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."

The Chinese traditionally have revered age and longevity - I have one and hope for the other! - so, in Taipei, a city-hub for global Chinese who dis-identify with the People's Republic of China's construction of a Communist nationalist Chineseness, I called on the Chinese muse of writing to witness my emergence out of the academic woods.

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.