I can’t wait fifteen years to do my work: Because my ideas are coming now.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.

The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you.

It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

You're a miracle, Walker. Your fingers are. Your toes are. Your crushing sadness and guilt are.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

Never Quit, Never backdown.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.