There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

The real education never ends. It is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.

Darkness within clouds the world without.

We are like guests on this Earth, either we get to be nice or we get to be bad

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

It would be nice if you have a hit. But I don't think it's necessary to continue with my career at this point.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

All religions have always hated females.

Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.