Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

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

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

It is passivity that dulls feeling.