True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.

When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.

There is always a state of anxiety, of searching and delving for style.

We're too different now. We want different things. And this?" I say nodding at our hands. "All this managed to prove is that you are extremely good at turning me off

I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

Goods which are not shared are not goods.

Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.

Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.

When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.

The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.