Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts.

We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

My skull is crammed with quotations.