Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.

I like to follow my own muse.

In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.

You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making an illustration.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

Time and space, and freedom. That's what I want most. Isn't that true for all of us?

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

Let the skin be like water, let the flesh hang from the bones.

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

It's not that hard to be glamorous in England.

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.