I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.

My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.

I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

I'm always so sick of myself after a show.

I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.

To enjoy true, vibrant health, increased awareness, effort, and focus are required.

No. I will never let you hurt Day like that. Not the way I've already hurt him.

Love is a precious gift which cost nothing.

But I'm not ready to let Winn-Dixie go.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.

For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.

It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that’s a weird image.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.