My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

I always notice flowers.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.