America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Whatever the word 'great' means, Dickens was what it means.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those sam…

Ikenobo Sen'o, a master of flower arranging, once said (the remark is to be found in his Sayings): 'With a spray of flowers, a bit of water, one evokes the vas…