So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

Wonder is the salt of the earth.

The human race is called on throughout the Bible to repent of sin and return to God.

If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him.

If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.