Never expect to outgrow loneliness
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never
Your taste is what disappoints you
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because
You must attend to words
“The price of learning to use words is the development of an acute self-consciousness. Nor is it enough to pay attention to words only when
Nota Bene
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out ofschool the year the rules were mentioned. All I know
Cartography
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we haveswallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers ofwisdom, characters
Remember what you hoped for
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you