Freedon Is A Scary Thing. Most People

I Am A New Yorker, One; I'm An Artist, Two; I'm A Woman, Three.

Not Many People Care What You Do. They Care About What You Do As Much As You Care About What They Do. Think About It. Just Exactly That Much. You Are Not The Center Of The Universe.

Books Are The Way The Dead Talk To The Living.

I Have Written A Lot About Snakes. There's Something Pretty Primordial About It.

Writers Want To Summarize: What Does This Mean? What Did We Learn From This? That's A Very 19th-century Way Of Thinking About Art, Because It Assumes That It Should Make Our Lives Better Or Teach Us Something.