A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.

Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.