Nobody Can Assume That, To A Writer,

Whatever One Intends, The Work Takes On A Life Of Its Own.

It Seems To Me That The Problem With Diaries, And The Reason That Most Of Them Are So Boring, Is That Every Day We Vacillate Between Examining Our Hangnails And Speculating On Cosmic Order.

Quite Often My Narrator Or Protagonist May Be A Man, But I'm Not Sure He's The More Interesting Character, Or If The More Complex Character Isn't The Woman.

I Don't Even Correct People When They Mispronounce My Name Now.

I Could Name A Few Songs And Say Exactly What Summer They Came Out And What Boy I Thought I Was In Love With When I Was Fourteen Years Old, But I Think That Music Used To Be Really More A Part Of The Culture When People Went Out Dancing In A Different Way Than They Do Now.