Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker.