"Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease."

“If you know someone with a talent and a dream, support them just the way you would want to be supported”

“I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.”

“The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first.""What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need."I found this to be true.”

Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 8), 1985.

“What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.”

Source : "Record painter" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2008.

“Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it”

“I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.”

Source : "Joker in the pack". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2008.

“I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.

“Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.”