Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

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.