My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.
Becoming is superior to being.
See with one eye, feel with the other.
A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P. M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.
For me, even when I was pregnant, I wondered, Should we even have children if we're bringing them into this horrible, scary world? But I did have a child, despite these fears - or because of them - and these fears are both contemporary and as old as time.
The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.
Amen, sister,. . . All apologies to Tom Cruise.