I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

Perception precedes reality.

My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.