All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.
I think if you’re going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can’t just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.
Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
