“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“Cynicism always enchanted me by producing a delicious feeling of self-assurance and of being in league with myself”
― Bonjour tristesse
― Bonjour tristesse
“What drives all these essays is a long-standing interest in how a person can be free, and especially in how to find a freedom that is shareable, and not dependent upon the oppression or exclusion of other people.”
― Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
― Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
“A paranoid reader is concerned with gathering information, tracing links and making the hidden visible. They anticipate and are perennially defended against disaster, catastrophe, disappointment. They are always on the lookout for danger, about which they can never, ever know enough.”
― Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
― Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
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