Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through.'

It's very important to make nuclear deals but you have to make them from strength, not from weakness.

If you have everything prepared, the rest will take care of itself.

Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.