At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.
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.
Being happy is more important than anything else.
A lot of professionals are crackpots.
It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.