There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope.

When I'm not working, I think and I think when I get depressed.

Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not blink my eyes in unison." — "If The Impressionists Had Been Dentists

You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.

Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.