In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.

Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.

Fiction is a branch of neurology

Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety.

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.