You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.
Lynda BarrySometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.
Lynda BarryWhen you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.
Lynda Barry