To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didnt have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless youre going to choreograph things yourself, youre at the service of someone else.

We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying.

I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no plans at all - and the lostness of that, compared with the clear ambitions of my friends (marriage, children, law school), sometimes shamed me. Other times in my mind I defended such a condition as morally and intellectually superior - my life was open and ready and free - but that did not make it less lonely.