Oh for Christ sakes. Ay carrumba, chimichanga. I have no idea what you’re saying, but shut your pretty pie hole.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

You don't need superpowers to be someones hero

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

I had to find a way to paint abstractly, which is what I wanted to do. I couldn't forget Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, I mean that was the basis.

You can't help hearing things that are popular when you're young and impressionable.

Systems run the business and people run the systems.

They [police] do me like that all the time! "What you work for?".

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say she's my best friend. That's not a given, it's a process.