As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, so it seemed like a big challenge.

Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.

The Internet has a lot of solutions. I found an insane way to trap chipmunks - it was too crazy not to try.

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.

Well, art has to be sexy.

When I was younger and was working as a Dia guard I would go to see everything. I went to every opening. I was really interested in seeing and learning as much as I could.

I was really naïve. I had no idea artists made money.

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.

The way I make drawings is just with a desktop Epson C88 printer and they are designed to break, they are really cheap. So I bought a lot of them before it became impossible to find them.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

Never say no. It always depends on what's possible. I don't care so much where it is; it's what I want to do that matters.

I know I will never let myself be complacent in life.

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

I'm not a political guy. I've been a Democrat my whole life, but that didn't mean I went in and just pulled the Democratic ticket.

Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.