Death deserves dignity.

The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young)

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting - the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Conquered people tend to be witty.