I really hope that the reading raises people's consciousness of domestic abuse and sexual assaults on women.

I am looking forward to Saturday's reading. I hope it raises a lot of money to benefit a terrific community organization dedicated to helping women who have suffered.

You hope he's learned something. I think eventually he'll speak out against abuse to women.

I was asked by Pam Garvey, one of the founders of Words on Purpose.

That's one reason there's so much drug abuse: people are not shown other ways to alter their consciousness. All we have is the mall and the video rental shop; that's our cultural experience, our museums.

The johns use and abuse these young women. And pimps -- you can call them slaveholders, the masters out in the field.