I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

emotionless tone hurting as much as the news

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

Every runner is an experiment of one.

I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.

To be happy, make other people happy.