In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.

Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.

Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.

Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.

I don't shop by brand loyalty at all. I'm just drawn to what I like when I shop.

Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing.

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.