Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.

What I want to know from students, and I ask them right away, is, 'What do you want? I don't care what it is. I want to help you get it.

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

Before the Internet, if someone disappeared, it meant you should go looking for them. Now it means they got a life.

I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

If you don't like it, don't follow me, don't watch me, cause I'm not going anywhere.

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.

It takes two to make a thing go right.

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.