You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

The people who seem to have a lock on power get swept out in a couple of years. So it's naïve to keep swinging at the same targets over and over. It took me a long time to realize, but most of the shackles that I flailed against were just illusory.

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can be fresh again.

I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.

I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.