A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Mark Twain is a voice of truth and a voice of equality and a voice of tolerance. Which means he is a voice of love.

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, "That's a huge idea." Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.

There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.

I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.