I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.

The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.