Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
I like the anonymity, the fact that you're a stranger making strangers laugh. You aren't forcing them to laugh - it's involuntary, and that's when they give the most honest response.
It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.
Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.
For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.
It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.
