I did not meet Franklin but admired her work and scientific attitude. I did meet Hodgkin and learned a lot from her.

William Greaves’s film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm was an important early influence…Stuart Hall was a massive influence on this film

My wife says she does. I’d actually have to agree, though my kids and their friends are pretty amazing too.

Well, my mom had me at 22 and my sister at 24. When I think about her trying to raise these two young girls in Manhattan, having grown up in an incredibly conservative family and her having a more progressive calling for a more liberal life… It was my mother’s bravery, and my mother’s pursuit of her creative life that made it possible for me to have the one I currently have.

At 3am, worry seems to be my default mode.

I’m actually suspicious of people who have a lot of friends.

Don’t read your reviews. […] Don’t write reviews. (Your judgment’s always tainted.) […] Don’t write letters to the editor. (No one cares.)

My half measures are really not good measures.

Then I think to myself, Well, start. Start. Start.

Beyond that, editing an anthology gives me a chance to find a few new readers for my colleagues’ excellent work.