I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.

The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity - suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.