Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.

The people I work with have a very good impression of me for sure, because of how I am.

Success is not a doorway, it's a stairway.

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

People need encouragement to take action.

I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.