“It’s also true that we go through cycles. Right? At least in terms of my own work, I’ve gone through three or four of these, and I’m in one now, where it feels as if I’ve forgotten everything I’ve ever known. I have no idea what to do. Most of what I want to do seems to me like I’ve done it before. It seems stupid. And except on the days I’m really depressed, I realize that I’ve been through these before. These are actually good—one’s being larval. I’m being larval, right? Or else, I just can’t do this anymore, in which case I’ll find something else to do. And I brood about that a fair amount. But I think the hard thing to distinguish among my friends is who . . . who’s the 45-year-old who doesn’t know what she likes or what she wants to do? Is she immature? Or is she somebody who’s getting reborn over and over and over again? In a way, that’s rather cool.”