When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.