The last time I saw my grandmother, she said to me: ‘We just barely learn how to live, and then we’re ready to die.’
“I think of the ‘I,’ both in life and in writing, as part of the toolkit, not as an actual entity. It’s a device for organizing words and thoughts. I feel that the more times per day I remind myself that ‘I’ is a comfortable fiction, the closer I get to truth and love and freedom.”
Sarah Rosenthal