The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have clutched every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins.

It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.

I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.

You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.

I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children of India.