Much of my work has been done in first person.

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.