Life is fundamentally up for grabs

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.