Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

I'm retiring because my time is up.

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it.