Writing is a mysterious activity.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

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