You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.