“My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.”
“Was I saved, or was fate simply too damn busy killing other people that day to catch up to me, too?”
“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
“Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.”
“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.My business is to tear them apart.”
“Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign. ”