“I do not necessarily want to live a balanced life. I like the idea of my tensions and my slack being all askew, all illogically different lengths. I am shocked but still kind of love it when my sleepy and mundane life is pierced by exhilarations so ferocious that I wonder what bit me. I like the idea of being so out of balance that sometimes I topple over.
“And if it means that all too often I have to sit alone and lick my own skinned knees, so be it. So be it.”
Heather Heise, “On Balance” (in the wings, Sept. 18, 2007)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
