A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

What we need is to use what we have.

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.