Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.
All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.
raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
I am an artist and a political being as well.
For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.
in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.
every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.
guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.
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