Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Old age isn't a battle old age is a massacre.

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.

How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

You can't underestimate anyone.