“No art is possible without a dance with death.”
“In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life”
“If the choice is a life without dance or death, well then I choose DEATH! Now hand me my whiskey and tights.”
“The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship”
“Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.”
“You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.”