Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about, but I am writing it nonetheless, because I love you very much and trust that you have some good purpose for having me write this letter. I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love. Your father

Sadness of love without release.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment!