I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time.

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

I had my freedom and that was nice.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

I never really separated painting and literature.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

May my life radiates the beauty of God's glorious grace to mankind.

This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra.

Life's up and down from the time you get here to the time you leave.

The marathon is my only girlfriend. I give her everything I have.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.