Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

Desire has no history.