My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much.

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.

We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.