Homer, Dante, Rimbaud, de Nerval, Valey, Pound, Borges, Char, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Michaux, Faz, the Surrealists, the Symbolists mainly. The best thing about being a writer is having the opportunity, and privilege, of occupying an imaginative space at a time when people are chained to the calculative experience. True freedom lies in thought. Writing is a vocation and a responsibility. The worst thing about being a writer is not knowing whether one is up to the ideas one has chose to explore.
Ideas represent risk.
When not writing I travel to explore new ideas. I enjoy European art galleries, giving lectures, participating in intellectual forums. I would like to meet Susan Sontag in order to savor her brilliant intellect. Otherwise Brother Lazarus at St Anthony's Monastery in the Egyptian Desert, the last man living the life of an anchorite. I laugh at the absurdity of the human situation.