One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

My goal in life is to become an adjective.

This can't be true but I remember it.

Scars crossed her welded wrists.

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.