Odd things happen in New York, which is why it's such a great source of stories.

On the other hand, I'm drawn to top hats, and spats, and mustaches. I haven't read a Missed Connection yet with someone wearing a monocle, but rest assured I'll snap it up if I do.

I look for ambiguous messages to illustrate...I like some detail but not too much detail.

I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.

But mostly I think two people do share a moment, and we all know that feeling, and it can put a spring in your step for the rest of the day.

There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter.

Some people have recognized their friends in my paintings, but I'm not directly responsible for any hooking up as far as I know!

There are more than a few messages from lonely people wondering why they never find themselves described...I illustrated one, "How come no one ever misses me?" They kill me, those.

You should write a book, " Matrick suggested.Kit snorted. "Who wants to read the self-pitying lamentations of an old revenant?""There's your title right there, " said Ganelon.

Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear.

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

The Klit brothers should first fight each other, and the winner should fight me.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.