The really important thing is not to reject anything.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive and literary, than to writing which is extremely academic or jargon-ridden.

I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.

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