Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.