Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

False values begin with the worship of things.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.