I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery.

I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye.

Things are forgotten so fast today. Even if 1,000 people are slaughtered, the next day you forget. There has to be new news every day.

In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting - I think it's very good to nail down this story of Pol Pot and other people, not all dictators but most of them.

Every five, six, seven, eight, 10 years I do a raisonné. When it's printed in the book, it's finished.

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

I lived on Fulton Street in an enormous studio - I needed a bicycle to get to the toilet, about half a mile between two streets - next to Wall Street.

I have very warm memories about New York, about the old times, mostly the '60s.

...and when is enough proof enough?

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails.

Mac." He said my name and laughed. "What a name for something like you. Mac.

Give me coffee! I'm going to write!

The best general is the one who never fights.

If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.