everything is a conversation

How can I find worth and dignity in something deeper and more enduring than intelligence?

“There is no alternative” is a cheap rhetorical sleight. It’s a demand dressed up as an observation. “There is no alternative” means: “Stop trying to think of an alternative.”

if your work is solely driven by how people respond to it, you’ll create something popular but soulless

if it’s driven by how you feel about it, you’ll create something potent but obscure

but if your work is a dialogue between self & world, it can be both resonant & true

You can literally be the source of the thing you want to see more of, any time you want