...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.

...morning is the soul's night.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.