Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.

Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.