Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.

Spring is painted in daffodil yellows, robin egg blues, new grass green and the brightness of hope for a better life.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

Miami's never been more than a spit from New York.

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

expectation isn't the same as desire

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.

I think we have to find a leader who reflects all of our concerns and not just some of them.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.