When you're younger, you go out and you're convivial because you have to be. But once you don't have to meet people anymore, what's your motivation in going out?

I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.

There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it.

If I don't have a deadline, I could fuss around with stuff for forever.

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately.

I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory.

I'm getting more and more isolated as I get on in years. I think people's insanity starts to slowly take over.

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

I'm jealous of that time when you could afford lofts and survive on almost nothing. You can't do that anymore.

Never take the goals and aspirations along with your corpse. Rather execute... they doth entertain and enthrall the world around you!

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.

Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.

Sometimes we overcomplicate living the gospel.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

When a genocidal killing occurs, as happened in Rwanda, it is not just an internal domestic matter.

The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.