Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

I had my freedom and that was nice.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

I never really separated painting and literature.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

Madness is freedom and some may only perceive its Insanity.

History is defined by people who don’t really understand what they are defining.

You can’t stop loving someone if you had already fallen

I don't want to say something and walk away, I want to wake you up and walk with you to achieve your dreams

A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.

Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours?

It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

He gave her what no one else had ever been able to give. A past to cherish. A present to enjoy. A future to anticipate

I was a pretty bad person early in my life.

But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?