I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.

I'm never really that worried about doing something a little different, 'cause it always just seems to fit into what I want to do.

I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.

I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.

I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

I don't like theorizing about my work myself, but that's not to say I have no interest in theory. Other people are free to say what they want about my work.

If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.

I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.

I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough to write an essay about them so that makes me pretty happy.

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

Success comes in cans, not can'ts.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.

some wishes come true. some wishes dont. sometimes you find out you were wishing for the completely wrong thing.

I'm ingrained in a lot of - almost too many - causes and struggles around the world because that's where I come from.

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

He smiled, and it lit up his whole face.

Chinas development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.