Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.

If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.

If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.

By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.