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“The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.”

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I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.

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With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee…

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I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for…

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I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the…

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“the impersonal and the personal are always connected.”

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When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

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“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.”

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There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

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The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our…

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“Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.”

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Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

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I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

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