If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

In the end, everyone loses everyone.

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.

I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didn’t come back

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