A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing, then style is doubly definitive, because style describes the doing.

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

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.