I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

You don't have to, Henry. In here, I think my dream is big enough for the both of us.

Love is the light of lamp of the soul.

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

Nothing lasts but the Church.

There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility.

If this is the only life, then why I’m not just doing everything I want to do.

All you have to do is put on the Bettie Bangs and everybody automatically knows what it means.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.