Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

God is strongest when we are weakest.

Pat Robertson had decided that global warming was real and we need to do something about it struck me as powerful evidence that the Holy Spirit is hard at work in this question.

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

I definitely get pumped up when I hear a crowd cheering for me.

Your house is your larger body.

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.