Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

Through reframing, you can eliminate all limiting experiences from your life.

Pain has to be ended someday, and as much as you want to start over again .

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten.

Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted.

The first thing that makes you a tough fighter is in your head and in your heart, then your tools. It has nothing to do with someone teaching you how to be tough.