Almost every month we have 20 to 30 patients needing a recovery room.

I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created.

I locked myself in a room for a month,

We're going back to patients who were in our earlier trials. There were about 2,000 who participated and we're encouraged that a high percentage of patients have expressed a desire to enroll in this study.

It was almost like you were in the room with Anne.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.