Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.

The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity.

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.