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

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

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

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.

I never suffered for lack of confidence. I knew I would succeed; you have to. I think I couldn't go into any venture any other way.

When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.

Traders and Surfers both have to deal with feelings of missing out on the small ones, until the big one comes along. They also have to deal with feelings of staying with the big one.

Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Michael Vick healthy in the pocket, as a pocket passer, puts the fear of Doug Flutie in me. Michael Vick running around with all his legs (healthy) puts the fear of God.

The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Thus you are led from moment to moment in your halter of preoccupation with self, and kindled instantly to displeasure, impatience or anger if an obstacle intervenes.