To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.

Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.

You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?

Violence recoils on the violent.

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

I don't want people to chop off the citizens' or anybody's heads in the Middle East, OK? Because they're Christian or Muslim or anything else.

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple of days at least you can have a nice roast dinner.

We're in a little funk. I don't think anybody's worried about our lead.

God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.

So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.