There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

America's all about the various voices, right? When we all speak with a common voice we verge on fascism, which is militaristic, and fundamentally anti-American.

Artists used to argue about art for art's sake versus social realism etc, and now it's like the most dominate argument is related to "art for the market's sake." It's a necessity, somewhat, for some people.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.

If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.

I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that belongs to the heavy-hitters, the canonical writers, Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and even Toni Morrison, George Saunders, Thomas Bernhard, Sebald, Borges, DFW, e.g.