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I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.

I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

I've had a very strange life. Whenever I've married, I've married for life. But things have gone desperately wrong.

I'm starting my own family, and there is no other feeling like it.

I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up in.

There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.