Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

Most of my reading is rereading.