My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.

Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

To take the island, cut all sources of retreat. Burn your boats and go all in.

In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

Once you get into a routine of eating healthy, it hurts twice as much when you fall off the wagon.

O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.

Oh, I love horror movies, yeah.