Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.

I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.

We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.