Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

In a sense, I feel like the job of the artist at all times is essentially the same, which is simply to tell the truth. I mean, I'm nervous about any prescriptions for what a writer should or shouldn't do.

In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy.

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.

I think that everybody who writes believes that their work has some kind of use-value, for someone, that there's some need for it, some person or group of people out there has demanded that these words come into being. I think that you do the work for these people. You hope that you can make a living at it. Whatever your ambitions and needs are in that regard, your only real requirement is to try and dig as deeply as you can dig to make sense of the meaning of human existence.