I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.

I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.

Every book is a unique experience.

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

We are creatures like everything else in our world.

People have their own ideas how about they should appear.

It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getting there.

I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.

Open the doors of your heart and they will come…And for every cruel arrow, Sweet caresses of delirium alsoTo nourish your soul.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.

You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.

There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise.

You want to see women your own age in films.

There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.