The Slight Sense Of Degeneracy Induced By

Intimacies Between Women Often Go Backwards, Beginning In Revelations And Ending In Small Talk.

Often When I Write I Am Trying To Make Words Do The Work Of Line And Color. I Have The Painter's Sensitivity To Light. Much Of My Writing Is Verbal Painting.

Pity The Selfishness Of Lovers: It Is Brief, A Forlorn Hope; It Is Impossible.

[my Early Stories] Are The Work Of A Living Writer Whom I Know In A Sense, But Can Never Meet.

Two Things Are Terrible In Childhood: Helplessness (being In Other People's Power) And Apprehension - The Apprehension That Something Is Being Concealed From Us Because It Is Too Bad To Be Told.