"Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go through art school they are exposed to the history of the avant-garde, and there's a general understanding that what you're doing as an artist is to a large extent, not just regurgitating that history, but engaging with it. There's this denial of that in the mainstream publishing world."

“Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.”

“Every fighter should really do that if they can, because if you build a fan base at home first, then once they receive you at home, it'll be easier to be received elsewhere.”

“Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer so remotely as to afford little light and no warmth. The former is like the sun, each day shedding his prolific and cheering beams.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.415

“So you've taken to spying on her. It must be love.”

“Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.”

Source : Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.175, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

“There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities, in the declension of his age, he knows not what to do with himself, if he cannot think; he saunters about from one dull business to another, to wear out time; and hath no reason to value Life but because he is afraid of death.”

“If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.”

“Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.