Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.

Nowness' is a dynamic relation between the past and the future.

It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high.

An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are - I think time is a sort of liquid that pours out of hatpins, underground trains, salt crystals. So a work of art is also listening to itself, because what it is never quite coincides with how it appears, too.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing what I'm doing, but much harder, more condensed. It's the same job, but they're more talented. All of them. So I just steal openly from them.