“Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. ”

“Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do”

“As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.”

“Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?”

“Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.”

“The point of art is not to give you what you already feel comfortable with; that’s reporting, not art, that TV, not art, that’s magaziney art, not art. Art gives you so personal an interpretation that it compels you to say, “This here is more real than what I know is really out there.”