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

The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.

I worry about images. Images are what things mean.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for.