Colm Tóibín

I associate it with shame, with that shame of being in Beatrice's house, having no other shirts except the short sleeves and her saying, you know, yeah, that, no, so I don't think I'll bring them, I don't think I'll start wearing them again.

How?

Oh, that was Almodovar actually.

No.

Yeah, he told me that this thing really worked.

And, you know, I think he was talking about actors and that if you gave it to an actress and then turned on the camera, I think that's what happened.

And so I was going just after I saw him at that time, I was going to teach at the New School.

It was a three-hour seminar.

And I would do it right before a double espresso and you let it cool.

You put sugar into it, let it cool.

And then you throw in a full bubbly Coca-Cola and drink it all down like medicine.

And you were, I mean, it took about an hour, but by the, I mean, on fire, you know, I became this sort of teacher couldn't stop.

And I mean, it was really true that there was a complaint from the porters because they were closing up the school at 10.

I would still be in full flight at 10.

And I would tell them, you know, just go away for a while and we'll come back.

Poor students had to listen to this.

Yeah, no, it's really great.

And, you know, it's not illegal.

You don't have to feel that you're somehow compromising with so many people.

It's your drug habit.