- What is your current state of mind? Anxious, always
- What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Empathy
- What do you consider the most underrated virtue? Humility
- On what occasion do you lie? When the truth would serve no purpose
- What do you most dislike about your appearance? My posture
- What is your main fault? I usually avoid instead of confronting
- Your favorite painter? Alice Neel, Fernando Amorsolo
- Your favorite musician? Joni Mitchell
- What is the quality you most like in a man? Curious, gentle
- What is the quality you most like in a woman? Sensual, maternal
- Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Fudge cakes
- What or who is the greatest love of your life? My husband
- When and where were you happiest? Comfortably in bed with my husband, exchanging childhood stories, our constitutions melding, cat on the foot of the bed, any time of day but preferably at dusk
- Which talent would you most like to have? Extraordinary memory
- If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? For my anxieties to dematerialize
- If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? Ballet shoes
- If not yourself, who would you like to be? Kate Bush
- What is your favorite color? Cream
- What is your favorite flower? Passionflower
- What would you like to be? Content
- Where would you most like to live? 1973
- What is your most treasured possession? My pantry, keeping us sustained
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? School
- What is your favorite occupation? Silly dancing
- What is your most marked characteristic? My spirit? My creativity?
- What do you most value in your friends? Solidarity
- Who are your favorite poets? Leonard Cohen, Mary Oliver
- Who are your favorite writers? Robin Wall Kimmerer, Alice Hoffman, Anaïs Nin, Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington
- Who is your hero of fiction? Pippi Longstocking
- Which historical figure do you most identify with? Frida Kahlo, Pamela des Barres
- Which fictional character do you most identify with? Phoebe Buffay, Carl Foutley
- Who are your heroes in real life? my husband, Jane Goodall, Georgia O'Keefe, Iris Apfel, Kumander Liwayway, Lady Bunny
- Who are your favorite characters in history? Beatrix Potter, Nikola Tesla, David Bowie
- World history characters you hate the most? Men imperialists playing God with their silly toys
- What are your favorite names? Paloma, Johnny
- What is it that you most dislike? Violence, bigotry, arrogance
- What is your greatest regret? Traded a day with Neil Gaiman for laundry
- How would you like to die? Without fear
- What is your motto? You can’t really hide from the cosmos. — Mona, Tales of the City
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