If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing because you have that space.
As a teacher at Princeton I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just...
I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp...
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age to die young but then you'd never complete your life would you? You'd never wholly know you.