she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.