Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that right is on their side, and can therefore instigate such atrocities in the name of their own sense of right and wrong.

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.