Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.
John MausIt seems to me that the best work I've done - and maybe this is something other people can identify with - was because it was an end in itself. It was something other than making ends meet, it was an escape from all that.
John MausIt's a very teenage idea - this idea that thought is ruined when we give over to television shows and glossy magazines and what they are telling us to do. The alternative, I believe, in is pitiless censorship. Because we owe each other the best effort we can to see one another without that mediation.
John MausI have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.
John Maus