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What takes place in me stays there.

(Poem on anorexic): The only way to escape the history of styles is not to have a body.

Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

To make a film you have to dream a film ... that's true of poetry as well.

Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.

Wanting to be a movie star ... answering an ad at ten or eleven. You made your mother drive you to Hollywood.

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.
I abjure advice-giver.

We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them change them and are changed.

Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.

Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

We live in a hell of opinions.