I'm not a person - and my wife also - we don't really go to the beach or anything like that. We go to cities.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

You can only make a difference by being different.

An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

I also don't exercise. I can't imagine exercising for two hours. Not my style.