“Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.”

“Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.”

“Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.”

“Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? I believe life imitates art the imitates life.”

“Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.”

“Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great hypnotic blah, blah." You can sit around and have these pity parties for yourself. Of course this is bullshit. If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people. One possible reason is that the people it's speaking to have become too stupid to appreciate it. That seems a little easy to me.”