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.

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 spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

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.

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

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

I think about the kinds of gardens that Queen Elizabeth put up. She made gardens in the shape of an "E," for Elizabeth, just one more way in which she used symbolism to solidify her reign: appearing as the Virgin Queen, for example, or wearing a dress embroidered with eyes and ears to indicate that she knew all that was going on in her castle; she had spies.