Art is too long, and life is too short.
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.
You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.
Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.
I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.