Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.