Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right.

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away.

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party.

Music is part of God's universe.

I loved the seventies.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. --Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urden

Humanness consists in harmony of thought, word and deed.

What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts?

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?