Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics and a few other things. The history of everything.

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.