How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.

CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.

The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.

Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will

A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.

It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.