If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".

Everyone is wrong about the future.

A Godly mother's seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

What good's a captive without her captor?

Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

I've grown up watching football my whole life.

Never take a person away from the music they love.