If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.