O months of blossoming, months of transfigurations, May without cloud and June stabbed to the heart, I shall not ever forget the lilacs or the roses Nor those the spring has kept folded away apart.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down, he gets polished.

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.

Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.