some words to live by from Lyn Hejinian's My Life

So that if I tell you my intentions, I force myself to maintain those intentions.

I found myself dependent on a pause, a rose, something on paper.  It is a way of saying, I want you, too, to have this experience, so that we are more alike, so that we are closer, bound together, sharing a point of view--so that we are "coming from the same place."

If I couldn't be a cowboy, I wanted to be a sailor.

Now that I was "old enough to make my own decisions," I dressed like everyone else.  People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives.

When you've exhausted setting, topic, or tone, begin a new paragraph.  The refrigerator makes a sound I can't spell.