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Julen er totalitær. Hvis man har lyst til at læse mere om det, kan man læse Christopher Hitchens' artikel om emnet. Salig Hitchens, han var god, når han var imod (Gud, Henry Kissinger), men dum, når han var for (Irak-krigen, Trotskij). Jeg plejede at synes, han var åndssvag, men efter han fik kræft, kunne jeg godt lide ham. Læs hans essay om at finde sin egen stemme. Ironisk nok mistede han sin. Hans råd til forfattere: sæt tingene i den rigtige rækkefølge og brug din egen stemme. Hvad er det med de her danskere? Da jeg sagde: Hitchens er død, sagde alle folk: Hvem er han? Jeg trænger til at omgås en bedre klasse mennesker.













Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.Sandheden er: mit liv ville være betydeligt nemmere uden det kunstpis. Jeg har ingen succes, og jeg er ikke engang sikker på, at det er noget, jeg holder specielt meget af.
– Marshall McLuhan
People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you're doing. And it's totally true. And the reason is because its so hard, that if you don't, any rational person would give up. It's really hard.
And you have to do it over a sustained period of time, so if you don't love it, if you're not having fun doing it, you don't really love it, you're gonna give up. And that's what happens to most people actually.
–Steve Jobs
Ofte, mens jeg står og maler, tænker jeg: Hvad fanden gør jeg egentlig det her for? Kulørte pletter. At smøre maling rundt. Hvor banalt. En abe kan gøre det.
I hated touring. Thought it was a real waste of time. You were only effective for an hour and a quarter a day and it just seemed scuzzy, all that rushing around, never getting the sound right on stage, meeting people you didn't want to talk to, like the local record company rep who turned up with the bag of marijuana you didn't want either. I enjoyed screwing the girls for a while, then that wore off as well. I've never known how to deal with adulation. The break point came for me one night when we were playing Sheffield and I caught myself thinking, Oh, I've forgotten to collect my laundry. And then I thought, This is the future: standing on stage, getting more and more successful, going through the motions.
– Brian Eno (min fremhævning)

