I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Every Christian must subject the rule of King Jesus Christ.

Inspiration fires you up motivation keeps you burning.

In the sacred-time, all beatitudes manifest.

I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.

It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

Every show, every audience is different, and I just love leaving the venue feeling like we all know each other a little bit better.

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

Painting is very interesting.

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?