Joan

“That’s it. It’s the expectations that are unstated – they can never ever be met, because they can never really be known. There’s always the possibility of some greater expectation.”

In the life of the body politic, the actual movement is going on underneath and I am interested in what’s going on underneath.

And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

“You were meant to show spirit, kill the rattlesnake, keep moving forward,” she once told me. “It meant being left alone and leaving others alone. It is regarded by members of my family as the highest form of human endeavor.”