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People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong.

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

I've never once corrected someone who got my name wrong.

It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.

I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.'

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.