I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.
You are a victim of the rules you live by.
How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.
A name means a lot just by itself.
If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.
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.