“[On the GamerGate Controversy]: Ethics in journalism is not what's happening, in any way.”

“Controversy… What Controversy?”

“Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.”

“I believe that painter's judgments of painting are first ethical, then aesthetic, the aesthetic judgments flowing from an ethical context. Doubtless no painter systematically thinks this way; but it does seem to me to be basically what happens when modern painters judge any new manifestations of painting... An artist's 'art' is just his consciousness, developed slowly and painstakingly with many mistakes en route. How dare they collect those ugly early Van Gogh's like trophies…”

“American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.”

“For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.”

“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”

“When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?”

“Any ethics that needs religion is bad ethics, and any religion that tries to do so is bad religion. Of course, there are plenty of both around.”

“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way, — and the fools know it.”