“Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.”
“If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.”
“We have arrived here in this illusory place. Now we just have to figure out how to deal with this grand illusion of our life.”
“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.”
“I travel, always arriving in the same place.”