Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness.

Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

I was six foot one inch when I started fighting, but with all the uppercuts I'm up to six foot five inches.

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

Justin Di Cioccio led a jazz program at Music and Art, but there was no jazz in Performing Arts. After they joined, it became Laguardia School of Arts.

I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease.

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.