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

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent.

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

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Ideas disturb the levelness of life