My work is my work and I will attempt to sell it for what it is.

Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject.

It's certainly going to be different from what people have seen before.

I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.

Be as you are or be as you seen...no more, no less

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way.

Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour.

The president and others say that if we leave, it will just be chaos in Iraq. Well, right now when you come to Iraq, you can't even drive from the airport to the Green Zone.

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.