Don't Cheat The World Of Your Contribution.

The Gnostics Believed That Exile Was The Essential Condition Of Man. Do You Agree? I Do. The Artist And The Addict Both Wrestle With This Experience Of Exile. They Share An Acute, Even Excruciating Sensitivity To The State Of Separation And Isolation, And Both Actively Seek A Way To Overcome It, To Transcend It, Or At Least To Make The Pain Go Away. What Is The Pain Of Being Human? It's The Condition Of Being Suspended Between Two Worlds And Being Unable To Fully Enter Into Either.

Those Who Will Not Govern Themselves Are Condemned To Find Masters To Govern Over Them.

Do We Have To Stare Death In The Face To Make Us Stand Up And Confront Resistance?

It’s Not The Writing Part That’s Hard. What’s Hard Is Sitting Down To Write.

Every Artist Has To Face His Own Demons And Evolve His Own Method Of Working.