You can do whatever you want with my work.
Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.
Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.
We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.
I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.
There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.
I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.
That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.
Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.
Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.