an artist's gotta art

I stopped going to class not long afterward, and I never went back. Partly because of that incident, and also because the stories and essays I turned into the class always received very bad grades, “D”’s, or “F”’s, probably because I hadn’t followed the instructions. I was supposed to pay attention to character development and the denouement and th... See more

If you can sustain your interest in what you're doing, you're an extremely fortunate person. ... And you can't lose your capacity for astonishment. It's a great loss. Because the world is a very astonishing place. The great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibliity for learning never disappears, we basically have to admit you're never lea... See more