If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh.

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.

Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!

I'm a huge Rachel Maddow fan. There's not a bigger Rachel Maddow fan. I'm a Maddowphile. I'm a definite Maddowphile.

Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.

Where am I? (Nick) Hospital. (Kyrian) Really? No kidding? And here I thought I was at McDonald’s. (Nick)

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.