To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one

If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.

I have an investment in not being crazy. I have a real investment in seeing things straight. This runs counter to that investment, so it required giving up an idea of myself, the idea being that I had control.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

Time is the school in which we learn.

We all have the same dreams.