The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.
Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching.
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Nobody knew how to be what they were right.