While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level.

I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet and I can take time to think and dream about new projects and possibilities.

I think that I the biggest thing that I need is more creative time. More time to make mistakes.

The biggest problem that I see that young artists have is they aren't willing to fail. And unless you fail a lot, I think it's difficult to find a voice that shouts above the crowds.

You can tell when women have a sensibility about, or a sense of bravery or a sense of understanding about their personal style that's outside of what you see from a magazine.

As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.

Sometimes, I have to look twice at you just to see if you’re actually real. That much beauty is dangerous.

It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

The less I understand life, the more I live it!

It's like the panda, they say that's dying out. But what do they do? When you see them they're just sitting in the jungle eating.

New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end!

I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.