缺乏一個強大的國家對自由的威脅比存在一個強大的國家更大。
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.
"Maybe it's good to not know exactly how everything will turn out."
I'm not a pop star, I'm a performance artist.