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

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

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

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic.

I want to save my soul, that timid wind.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.