Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.