Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening

In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

Always revisit your decisions in the light of new knowledge and information. Don't be afraid to change.

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me

When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.