There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.

I think what I do is find a cliché and try to believe in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it.

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

You are all made of real poop.

Can it be that man is essentially a being who loves to conquer difficulties a creature whose function is to solve problems?

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.