"I’ve found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing." – Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

“It’s not enough to reject the Nobel Prize, you have to not deserve it in the first place.” - Guy Debord

“I am a real minimalist, because I don’t do very much. I know some minimalists who call themselves minimalist but they do loads of minimalism. That is cheating.” - Robert Wyatt

Self-awareness without change.

"The sea moves but not in the direction of most things. I felt sure that most things moved from left to right or in the reverse. But the sea has an entirely other relationship to space; it seems to move backwards, pushing at the end of it." - Renee Gladman, Calamities

“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothing shows through.” – Paul Valéry, Mauvaises Pensées et Autres (1941)

"I've come to realize one thing, that stories are always bigger than we are, they happen to us and we are their protagonists without realizing it, but in the stories we live, we aren't the true protagonists, the true protagonist is the story itself." - Antonio Tabucchi, Time Ages in a Hurry

All the artists I admire are such a strange combination of completely open and completely stubborn.

"Poets whose work supports the status quo often fail to acknowledge that their poems are just as political as poets whose work questions it." - Jericho Brown

I've sent you a message.

I just spent a few days writing to people asking if they'd be willing to write about The Air Contains Honey record. Or play it on their radio shows. And it gave me the strange feeling that in our Spotify era music means something different than it meant when I was young.

When I was young I think I wanted to be some sort of "cult writer." But now that I am in fact some sort of cult writer, I have the strange feeling that people don't even really know what that is anymore.

I've noticed when writing I often instinctively choose a word that's just a little bit off, just slightly different than what I mean, while still being rather close to what I mean. I suppose this is out of a desire to keep everything off-kilter, ambiguous and open.

“Change often functions more like a relay race, with new protagonists picking up where the last left off.” – Rebecca Solnit, No Straight Road Takes You There

"I am not myself with people […] but am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too." - Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“Living a love while refusing it is a very strange business.” - Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

"I never fit in at school. I held grudges against the others, though I liked them. Ever the good student, I got pressed into a mould and what got squeezed out took the form of a brick. So I picked it up and threw it." – Anne Lardeux, The Second Substance (Translated by Pablo Strauss)