I have these books on my bedside table: Gilgamesh, Analects (Confucius), Eternal Peace (Immanuel Kant), History of England (Trevelyan), William Shakespeare (Anthony Holden), Häräntappoase (Anna-Leena Härkönen), The Half Brother (Lars Saabye Christensen) and the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin).

The deepest essence of knowledge is commercially useless. That is why so little of it is produced. Even the universities have given up basic research. Innovative trade requires superificiality. It is being favoured everywhere. I am interested to know that Shakespeare's vocabulary contains some 21 000 words. Or that the Formica rufescens ants have slaves. Males and fertile females do not work at all, and even for the worker ants and sterile females their only job is to capture slaves. I make drawings for the sake of drawing and acquire knowledge for the sake of knowing!