If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.