The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

If you read something, what you have written you ain't gonna like it...- It sounds horrible... so write don't read your own stuff.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.