I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.