Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

I worry about images. Images are what things mean.