“To do something very common, in my own way.”

“What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.”

“Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something more, and that Something More is what life is really all about.”

“Do your own thing, be your own king, that’s my philosophy. Lead or get out of the way.”

“I do some things that are within my rights and then they see that it is something that is all right. So they begin to understand that I am doing things not for my own enrichment or my own interest. It is for the whole country.”

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”

“Writing brings about a catharsis of my own terror and pity. It is something I have to do.”

“I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.”

“What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolutely nothing, all by myself?”