I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

Somebody will be exhibiting a bunch of bananas in a gallery, and they'll get me on to talk dirty about it.

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

Mechanism! Everywhere -- mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.

I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.

Someone needs to make a zombie movie where when you get bit it turns you into a singing and dancing extraordinaire.

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.

A digital frontier to reshape the human condition.

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

The ears are the last feature to age.

Only the most lucid can see their love as comedy.

Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.