For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve.

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

I'm in California, so I know people who are natives who tell me there's lots of weather here, but it's not the same as being in Vermont. Since I grew up on the East Coast I miss that weather all the time. You'd think I'd get used to not having it, but I don't.

I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away.