What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.