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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

We've all been affected by divorce in one way or another, whether we've experienced it personally, or witnessed family or friends go through it.

I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

I've never grown into loving someone. It's, like, either right away or slowly sinks in.

It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still holding love for him in my heart. No matter what he did, he was my father. He helped create the person I am.