The normal economic system works itself.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.

It's always gonna be different when I make a record just because I kind of touch on every sort of genre.

I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

I am not one to brag but to tell you the truth mang, I am funkier then a locker room after a hoop game.

America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax.

Well, you're not exactly Superman, but you're awfully available.