Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.
The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.
I must never write when I do not want to write.
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.
I'm really not someone who is drawn to something that's in your face, it feels a little forced.
He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.
