We are moving from an era of information scarcity to an era of information abundance, and the challenge is no longer finding information but managing it.

"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."

To talk about painting is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.