Seek only to preserve life -- your own and those of others. Life alone is sacred.

Be resolved that honor is heavier than the mountains and death lighter than the feather.

Often we may even smile or laugh at adversity, but all people share the same passions. They are merely manifest differently according to one's culture and conditioning.

Where is the culture of cleanliness?

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent.

I would vote for Johnny Depp. We could use a president that could swashbuckle.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

"You look how you look," "Be comfortable. What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That's just dumb."

The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants.

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.