I never cared about money.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.

To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love

You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them. I did worship them but now I am alone on a rock hewn out of my own body.

I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.