Writing Is A Performance, Like

No Special Writing Rituals. And My Desk Is Usually Cluttered.

Art Always Penetrates The Particular Fissures In One's Psychic Life.

When I Was Quite Young I Came Across A Collection Of [franz] Kafka Stories And Read "the Judgment." I Was Just Floored By That Story. I Couldn't Understand It. I Still Don't. I'm Talking About Something I Read More Than 50 Years Ago. That Story Left A Little Scar On Me.

The Greatest Obstacle To Pleasure Is Not Pain; It Is Delusion.

But If Shakespeare Himself Is Maybe About Meaning And Truth, I Don't Know, Then He Is Certainly About Pleasure And Interest, We Start With Pleasure And Interest, But Maybe Eventually It Gets To Meaning And Truth.