This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.

I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.

Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

People don't do me much good.

Please ignore rumors! I've had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don't take them personally.

Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.

When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When you sell depends on individual circumstances.

Be suspicious of what you want.

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.