“something into the world that didn’t exist before, putting your name next to it and saying, “here it is, world.” This remains my primary addiction — really, the driving force of my life — still today: The physical act of putting something out into the world that wasn’t there an hour ago. Of making something. I do not know what my lasting impression on this world will be, how I will thought of when I am gone, how the world will or will not be different because of my presence”