Popularity Has Become Its Own Justification.

Nothing Got Inside The Head Without Becoming Pictures.

You See More Sitting Still Than Chasing After.

Every Good Writer I Know Needs To Go Into Some Deep, Quiet Place To Do Work That Is Fully Imagined. And What The Internet Brings Is Lots Of Vulgar Data. It Is The Antithesis Of The Imagination. It Leaves Nothing To The Imagination.

I Had A Viking Sense Of Entitlement To Whatever Provisions I Could Plunder.

The Place Of Stillness That You Have To Go To To Write, But Also To Read Seriously, Is The Point Where You Can Actually Make Responsible Decisions, Where You Can Actually Engage Productively With An Otherwise Scary And Unmanageable World.