It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

If time is linear, every moment is new! Monotony is just an experience of Ignorance!

Telling the world you are trying is not doing.

You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.

Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the rest before me now, in fact... O, give it up old chap! Sleep it off!

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.

Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society.