Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

The problem with prostitution in my experience is that it's often unsatisfying.

We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending.

Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

When Allen Ginsberg was still alive, he was was an artist, but he was very local. He was just another wing-nut in the neighborhood and he was very accessible. You'd see him in Tompkins Square Park or in the local delicatessen, in one of the greasy spoon restaurants on First Avenue or a Chinese restaurant.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.