In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Things are not what they seem.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

The only way that you can identify and then fulfill your life’s purpose is for you to love yourself, charge up your life and serve the world.

[This philosophy] does not … regard the pen as the only fit organ for the revelation of truth, but the eye and ear, the hand and foot

It's strange to think that culture is simply a matter of millions of files flying around, but we now think in terms of networks for everything.

Bones,” I sighed. “Know something? I’m not afraid of you, but you scare me….” His outline blurred again. “You scare me, too, Kitten,” he might have replied, but I couldn’t be sure.

I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever

Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

Adrian, you're a genius.

Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.