All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

I get so into the moment.

There is boxing and then there is me. The rest are just falling in line behind me or are trying to get in line to fight me. And that includes Manny Pacquiao too.

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.