No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.