We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

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

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

What is an artist? For every thousand people there’s 900 doing the work, 90 doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who’s the artist.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.