Don't Think Of It As Art, Think

Artists Don't Talk About Art. Artists Talk About Work. If I Have Anything To Say To Young Writers, It's Stop Thinking Of Writing As Art. Think Of It As Work.

It Is The International System Of Currency Which Determines The Totality Of Life On This Planet. That Is The Natural Order Of Things Today. That Is The Atomic, And Sub-atomic, And Galactic Structure Of Things Today. And You Have Meddled With The Primal Forces Of Nature! And You Will Atone! Am I Getting Through To You, Mr. Beale?

We No Longer Live In A World Of Nations And Ideologies. The World Is A College Of Corporations, Inexorably Determined By The Immutable Bylaws Of Business...there Is No America. There Is No Democracy. There Is Only Ibm, And Itt, And At&t, And Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide, And Exxon. Those Are The Nations Of The World Today.

You British Plundered Half The World For Your Own Profit. Let's Not Pass It Off As The Age Of Enlightenment.

I'm A Human Being, God-dammit. My Life Has Value!