I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

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.

We who burrow in filth every day may be forgiven perhaps the one sin that ends all sins.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

I find in myself a need to get very away.

Brad [Pitt], poor geezer, was blown up, thrown around, burned, slapped, frozen. But never a moan or a whine. Now that's what I call a real star.

My honor is my loyalty.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Worry worships the words of the enemy