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.

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.

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

No one like the Incomplete Stories, so does the God :-)

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.

If you can't get an intro to a VC, hang up your cleats now. You're done, GAME OVER

The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you really want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.