Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

It is better to be than belong.

The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!

As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

Some people have to move, physically, to "get" something. But if you're stuck in a chair, that's not your limitation - it's simply not an optimal condition for you.

And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.

A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.