Oeuvre Quotes

In Stardust Memories I used the term ‘Ozymandias Melancholia’. That’s a symptom I’ve invented that describes that phenomenon specifically, the realization that your works of art will not save you and will mean nothing down the line. Eventually, there won’t be any universe, so even all the works of Shakespeare and all the works of Beethoven will be gone.

The precondition of creativity is, I think, disequilibrium, what mathematicians now call chaos.

The universe is almost what we would have to call an art making machine, an engine for the production of ever more novel forms of connectedness, ever more exotic juxtapositions of disparate elements.

To achieve great things we must be self-confined... mastery is revealed in limitation.

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.