"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

"I love to collect modern art."

"Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism."

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order."

"The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind."