We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufacture it through religion, philosophy, nationhood, politics, and some people buy it. But an artist is not a manufacturer.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down "Desolation Row." I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.