There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

The balls do not make a writer.

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

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

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.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.