I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

I will either be famous or infamous.

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

... my daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers ... I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said 'didn't they invent the airplane?'

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.

Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.