Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my Daddy.

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers

The journey starts with a single step—not with thinking about taking a step.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

A broken clock is right two times a day.