Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.