I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.

We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked.

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.