Graywolf Press</br></br>Product Description</br></br><p><b>A brilliant and exhilarating sequence of aphorisms from one of our greatest essayists</b><br><i></i><br><i>There will come a time when people decide you??ve had enough of your grief?? and they??ll try to take it away from you.</i><br><i> </i><br><i>Bad art is from no one to no one.</i><br><i> </i><br><i>Am I happy? Damned if I know?? but give me a few minutes and I??ll tell you whether you are.</i><br><i> </i><br><i>Thank heaven I don??t have my friends?? problems. But sometimes I notice an expression on one of their faces that I recognize as secret gratitude.</i><br><i> </i><br><i>I read sad stories to inoculate myself against grief. I watch action movies to identify with the quick-witted heroes. Both the same fantasy: I??ll escape the worst of it.<