I find humming is very useful.
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.
Life is a state of mind.
She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.
I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.
Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.
Change and decay in all around I see.
Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States.
The question of societal fairness is always pertinent.
I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but he said when he sculpts it's like finding the sculpture within. It feels that way when you are with actors, too. There's a natural way to do this with a natural language that flows and feels like real people talking. And you've just got to find it. So I enjoy that part of the process.