I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

The pursuit of a greater self is a holy-being.

From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Directors should not be forced to advocate anything in their works because of their demographic identity.

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

Listen, I'm a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC.

We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II

Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.

You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.

Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.