I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university, the university artists really acted as a group. The others didn't so much, but the university people took advantage of that and behaved like a group, rather than as individuals. They had a lot of power that way.

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell.

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.

They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.