There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.
Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff.
Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.
Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.
I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.
In a way, I had such a normal life. But in another way, I saw things most kids don't see.
If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.
There are things I've seen and experienced in this world - things they don't talk about in too many books.
The wisest man may be a blind father.
Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.
Art should be perceived as subjectively as possible, and if anyone wants to see something in 'Belus' that I had not planned, that is fine.
