To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable to no one.

I write to make sense of the world.

人们不会使用手持计算器来学习计算，但是却会忘记算术。