“People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.”

Exposure and attention make a work famous – the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

You’d be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

Fashion wasn’t what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.

Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

If you don’t think about it, it’s right.

Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.

Put your own twist to it. That’s how you say relevant. Or things get old and boring.

I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

The intelligent man is never bored.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

Forced idleness evolves into beauty.