Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

I just want to be humble at all times.

But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

In America, we have a bifurcated country, we have a polarized country. One of the reasons I think it's polarized is because of identity politics on the left.

I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.