Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.