What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

We all experience sadness. The real test is being strong enough to continue on regardless.

My demons creep like a pedo in a park full of kids. Each one reminding me of the consequences, what I didn’t do, or did.

No doubt exists that all women are crazy it's only a question of degree.

The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

And I have a plan to do even better, to end welfare as we know it