How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.

Like Spain, I am bound to the past.

If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.

You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.