'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.