I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will. - Margaret Atwood

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

Sanity is a valuable possession: I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.

These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom. But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.