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When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

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My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

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That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.

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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

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I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.

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My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

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