“This museum is like a ghost train—at every stage you find a surprise. Intuition prepares you for enlightenment, not audio-visual lectures. There's less to read, more to fee.”

“One thing great journalists and artists have in common is a desire to be surprised, to find yourself with way more than you bargained for when you began an inquiry with little more than a sense of intuition.”

“The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.”

“The more you read and the more you teach yourself, the less you rely on something like drugs to take you to a better place.”

“You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.”

“Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.”

“When we go up to the shelves in the reading-room of the British Museum, how like it is to wasps flying up and down an apricot tree that is trained against a wall, or cattle coming down to drink at a pool!”

“If a chemical drug like Viagra is accepted by society and by the world to ignite desire, then what is the problem with my audio-visual drug called cinema which ignites desire? Both are basically doing the same thing!”

“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”

“You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.”