Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

Graffiti doesn't exist unless someone got a photo, because it's gone immediately.

One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

I was an actor in college and it was much easier than being a waiter. I thought it was fun to get paid. People were not exactly surprised to see me going in the field.

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop

When you come to a dark valley, a difficult season or a sickness, don't worry about it, God will give you the grace and strength you need.

Fermentation equals civilization.

I mean, I always feel incredibly lucky to get a job.

As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.