holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?
why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?
Technology is lust removed from nature.
Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.