Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he's not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind?

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.

I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination.

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

Language is a virus from outer space.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

The trading side of the business means a lot of travel, being out of the office a lot of time.

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

I am very lucky to consider many of my business associates friends. Some are closer than others, but I respect and value all of them.

I travel all over the world, usually 10 months out of the year. I stay at a lot of hotels, and the ones I like best are clean and not complicated. You go to bed and say, 'Wow, I feel comfortable.'

My flight time is important to me; I actually prefer a longer flight to a short one. That way I have time to read a book, watch movies, and think about new dishes.

I eat soup noodles for comfort. In fact, noodles of any kind. It's a food that is very easy to eat; it's very soothing and comfortable, too. If I could choose any, I'd say buckwheat was my favourite: it has a very good flavour and is healthy, too.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.

I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

Turner - whether on canvas or paper - can create almost measurable distances of space and air - air that you can draw, in which you can work out what the section through it would be. The space he creates is not emptiness; it is filled with 'solid' atmosphere.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

We're made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it.

I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception.