One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Wise men still seek Him today.

But in action, one defies one's character.

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

Don't turn blue all over now.

I live, eat, spend, travel, support a family, entertain.....but I do not go to work. There is something wrong. My nest egg just keeps growing.

I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.

I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.

I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.

I abhor television. Notice how i said ‘television’ and not ‘TV’ because TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is no friend of mine.

Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.