My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.

Get over your aggression, as Trees are also part of nature, when you don't cut their branches, people start cutting the whole trees.

Young girls and mass murders are tender hearted creatures

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.

Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy

A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.

Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much

I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.