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I can't stay in one place for too long. ”
Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs. ”
I love America, it's a much more permissive place. ”
All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family. ”
I mean, I'm married to an academic oncologist, a cancer doctor, okay? He and his colleagues are some of the most conscientious, devoted, hard-working, conventional bourgeois people in the known universe. They are the people that keep this society going. ”
I do sort of question the notion that conservatives should try and turn America into a place where people can come from traditional societies and continue to be fully traditional in every sense. ”
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. ”
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created. ”
Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me. ”
I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe. ”