I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.
The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive. . . but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.
The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations. . . Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone.
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.
It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.
Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -on your mirror!
To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.
Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.