A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

The beginning is always today.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.