It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.

Picturing Will.