The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain times, and then I work to figure out for myself if what he...

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of...

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

What was happening to them was that every bad time produced a bad feeling that in turn produced several more bad times and several more bad feelings, so that their life together became crowded with...

Art is not in some far-off place.

I am happy the leaves are growing large so quickly. Soon they will hide the neighbor and her screaming child.

But at other times, I sit here reading in the afternoon, a myrtle in my buttonhole, and there are such beautiful passages in the book that I think I have become beautiful myself.

No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering...

I had had a feeling of freedom because of the sudden change in my life. By comparison to what had come before, I felt immensely free. But then, once I became used to that freedom,...

At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to...

I’d like to do this, or that.

Heart weeps.Head tries to help heart.Head tells heart how it is, again:You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday.Heart feels better, then.But the words of...

Why don’t you like the foods I like?” he asks sometimes. “Why don’t you like the foods I make?” I answer.

I can talk for a long time only when it’s about something boring.