You can always be quoted.

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

Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.