I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

You bring to a painting your own experience.

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

For a better, happier, more stable and civilized future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood.

Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.

Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.

I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.

The Bible diagnoses the cancer of all cancers and prescribes the cure of all cures.

We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.