I'm not someone who is scared of doing things out of the box.
I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.
The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.
I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.
The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.
I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.
I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.
Men do not live by truth alone; they also need lies: those that they invent freely, not those that are imposed on them; those that appear as they are, not smuggled in beneath the clothes of history. Fiction enriches their existence, completes them and, fleetingly, compensates them for this tragic condition which is our lot: always to desire and dream more than we can actually achieve.
Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
Generally you should act somewhere between P40 and P70, as I call it. Sometime after you have obtained 40 percent of all the information you are liable to get, start thinking in terms of making a decision. When you have about 70 percent of all the information, you probably ought to decide, because you may lose an opportunity in losing time.
Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?