I had a joint once and I didn’t feel right for a whole year.
We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn’t feel like they had enough to do.
My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I’m always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven’t yet gotten to. That’s sort of the constant in my life.
The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state – it’s not totally real. I’m always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.
I realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.
Where do we come from? Do souls really exist? I can’t answer these questions, especially not at 6am.
I’m not a cinephile. My films don’t reference films. I’m more interested in rhythm and feeling.
My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.
When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.
I actually don’t have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.
I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.
He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done. I expelled my dust, the powder of everything I had destroyed with doubt, and he pulled it into his lungs.
She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.
The thing I am most interested in is power relations – it is so easy to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.
She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.
We don’t really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.
It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.
I could not make a move without making love.
This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.
Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.