Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn’t ever get to meet.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
James Joyce – an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it it’s a sculpture.
I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds – if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it.
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
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.
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I’ve liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
I burn with no causes.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
I’m a very boring person.
I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn’t wait to be out of education.