“I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.”

“When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.”

“To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.”

“People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.”

“My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.”

“I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.”

“I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.”

“If the devil is sending you thoughts of fear, resist him, stop the thoughts”

“Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.”

“The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contr...”

“Innumerable spirits and souls, when spread out through the same space, do not interfere with each other such that the diffusion of one would affect the diffusion of an infinity of others.”

“Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.”

“Time is the least thing we have of.”