It is of no concern to me if one is rich or poor, healthy or sick, at some time or another life will be pretty difficult for everyone. That is one of the reasons why my figures do not smile.

It doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.

My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually exists is simply insane.

I do not love fiction, I love history.

There are other ways of knowing than just through reason.

When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic.

What questions do I want my audience to ask?

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

Now get that Rose, get that get that Rose A little Hennessy & Louis the Thirteenth

Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.