You know you can set fire to the capacity to say.

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.

When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.