“There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.”
“Life is not always deep, mostly it's just random. But it’s different in art. In art you can choose to show some things and hide others. And suddenly there's meaning to find in the chaos.”
“When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.”
“Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?”
“There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies”
“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…”