Any surplus is immoral.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go.

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.

Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.

A sense of duty imprisons you.