"I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers."

"I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot."

"Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things."

"The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to."

"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on."

"From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest."

"It is a timeless truth that in the quiet sanctuary of self-reflection, the soul finds its rhythm — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."