The only way to escape the system is to play with it, to turn its own logic against itself.
The past is a foreign country, but we are all its citizens.
"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
I don’t like to be told what I am.
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.