The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.
Sarah MangusoPerhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.
Sarah MangusoThe only thing I've consistently been interested in in the last twenty-five years is writing very short texts. That continues to interest me as a project, to contain some part of reality, which is chaotic by definition, in a contained space. I like small apartments. I like getting rid of stuff. I went through my files yesterday and spent hours shredding things. It was great.
Sarah Manguso