I Was Never A Fanatical Movie Person.

I Have Probably Four Or Five Male Friends Who Have A Real Strong Masculine Side But Some Degree Of A Feminine Side, Too. They're Pretty Rare, Whereas I Think Women With A Masculine Side Are Much Less Rare.

There Are Many, Many Benefits To Being Known For Whatever It Is You Do. To Deny That Would Be Sort Of Asinine And Vulgar.

All You Have Is The Writer's Imagination. You Have A Very Limited Time To Take This Imaginary Person And Bring The Details Of Their Life, As You Perceive Them, To Life. You Attempt To Do To That As Fully And As Vibrantly As You Can. It's Depressing To Read How Much You've Failed. And It's Not Even Particularly Instructive Or Necessary To Read How You Succeeded Because In The End Don't You Have To Judge That?

I've Permitted Myself To Learn And To Fail With Some Regularity. And That Is Probably The One Thing I Was Given, And That I'm Still Grateful For.

Politics Is Not Really My Thing.