Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

Your net worth depends on your added value

I thought of her as she, and she as her.

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

We'd love it if we could all just come home and not worry about the rest of the world. But the problem is, they attacked us on 9/11. We were here; they attacked us.

The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.