Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

Different is not wrong.

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

Revolutions have always started in cafés.

To submit one’s self to one’s gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one’s gift

Losing my virginity was very boring.

Faith is an indispensable part of work, whether that work is paid or unpaid.

Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it lives in space and not in time.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.