When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

When anything goes, everything goes.

Believe in everything, just in case.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.

The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.

My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.

I am a fan of the true crime and horror genres! So, I've got a dark side too.

The older I get, the more centered I become and the more I think I really know about myself. What I know is that what other people do doesn't really have any effect on me.