"The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time."

"I'm a storyteller."

"Sth, I know that feeling. Just when I think I'm in the clear, I find myself in the thick of it again. It's a never-ending battle."

"When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you don't. And you can't fake it."

"I'm always surprised by what I write. I don't know what I'm going to say until I say it."