It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons

If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned on me: These are memorials to people who wrote, so I should use their writing. That's how I started to quit.

I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.