Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

I identify with the 99 per cent.

Kicking the door shut with the heel of my boot, I wedge her against it, raining kisses on her skin, wishing I could climb inside her and kiss away the welts left on her heart and mind.

The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

I think sometimes women are stuck in a type. I've never dated the same type. I fall in love with personalities, and they come in different packages.

A man's character is his fate.

All comedy comes from a dark place.

Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.

Success is failure inside out.