How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.