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.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

Working people are working even longer hours, even though we won the eight-hour workday at the Haymarket General Strike in Chicago.

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

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.

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.

Street posters allowed you to have the last word. If you put them up in your neighborhood, you were speaking to your neighbor.