All critics should be assassinated.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

All critics should be assassinated.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.

Lipstick is the red badge of courage.

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.

I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

It is as if families on the run are shattered by something other than just grenades. The flight and fear tears us apart and those parts land in all kinds of places we don't even know where.

I think a lot of the time having someone who you, not base yourself on, but can see yourself being after a few years, you can get quite blinded by that, in the same way love can be.

The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.

I like to be dressy casual. I wear jeans and nice sneakers. I wear nice clothes, but not super dressed up. I don't wear too much jewelry. I keep it simple and maybe wear just a little chain.

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

To a lazy man every day is a holiday.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

Simplifying isn't meant to leave your life empty, it's meant to leave space in your life for what you really want to do. Know what those things are before you start.

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

I would have never gotten to college if it hadn't been for getting up at 4 A.M. and milking them Holsteins.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.

Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.