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

Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. ...If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news.