Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Is man wiser than his Maker?

I am Josephine Darly, and I intend to live forever.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.

Place gifts of silver in our hands. Give us this day our daily fish.

Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.