It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

A man is always devoted to something more tangible than a woman - the idea of her.

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

Before a shoot, I'll watch what I eat. During the shoot, I watch what I eat. Afterwards, the first thing I do is go have a steak and French fries.

It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.

The name of the Slough was Despond.

The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

Often the most specific stories end up being the most universal.

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.