Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

I want to be a machine.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.

I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.