... is not as personal as it may appear. Life is a lonely business. My impulse is to hold out my hand to readers. By recording my life as clearly as I can (while retaining my reticences) I offer them my companionship, a kind of friendship."
Anne Truitt
Prospect
"And what if ...
... all we can share is the vital desire to share, our only means of escape from solitude, from nothingness?"