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

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

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates toward simplicity - towards essentializing things so they can be sold.

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.

Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.

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