My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.

It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

I don’t intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what’s going to happen from one day to the next.

Anxiety is the normality of our age.

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight.

In the late hours of the night, befriend the prayer mat.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.

The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

If I'm going to be working out two hours a day, I may as well have a goal... and I'm pretty competitive by nature. A triathlon is a new fun thing.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.

I was never in the office [of Rolling Stone]. It was very different from Lampoon, where we spent a lot of time together socially, which is to say "drunk."

Russell Crowe likes to tell jokes, which I can't. I can't remember a joke to save my life. I don't have a brain for it.

I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.