Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

I always tell people if you want to do something, go to a great comedy show. And that's what I try to do: give people a really good comedy show.