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

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, “I knew he loved me when de didn’t come in my mouth.

Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.

Everyone needs a fantasy.

I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It’s being in the right place at the wrong time.

I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don’t want to get too close; I don’t like to touch things.

I don’t know where the artificial stops and the real starts.

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I’ve found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

I don’t want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film’s case ‘run on’ manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

People’s fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn’t have fantasies you wouldn’t have problems because you’d just take whatever was there.

I think everybody should like everybody.

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