There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.