I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'

I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

Every writer has to write his speech.

egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means "outside the herd." imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.

There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.