“Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.”

“Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isnt a fashion its an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are allowed to be and to want. Men are now permitted to be passive in...”

“In the 21st century mens tits have not just rivalled but replaced womens as the touchstone of sexy in mainstream pop culture, even when the audience for them is other men.”

“Is there a support group for people who didnt like Brokeback Mountain? We must, if the rave reviews and the newspaper reports are to be believed, be a very tiny not to mention vulnerable minority...”

“In a spornographic age its no longer enough for the male body to be presented to us by consumerism as merely attractive, or desiring to be desired, as it was in the early days of nakedly narcissist...”

“Contrary to what you have been told, metrosexuality is not about flip-flops and facials, man-bags or manscara. Or about men becoming girlie or gay. Its about men becoming everything. To themselves....”

“The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism”

“I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.”

“Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.”

“There are more than enoughto fight and oppose”

“There are some bad people on the rise”

“Rush to danger”