Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

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

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

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.