I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

Philosophy is the highest music.

...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a poor background than a rich one.

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.

We like to think of Uber as the cross between lifestyle and logistics, where lifestyle is what you want and logistics is how you get it there.