Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

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

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.