“I found I have to stay painting.”

I can remember walking on the moon.

I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they’re getting a chance to be as good as they can be.

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

It’s hard not to be excited when you’re going to find a way to land on the moon.

It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.

Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, ‘This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I’m really here, I’m really here!’

The moon is very rugged.

Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, “Is this thing still flying?

I feel like there’s too many paintings left unpainted that I just don’t want to take the time away.

I have the nicest life in the world.

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

If the answer is yes, then there’s no immediate danger, no need to overreact.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn’t know how difficult.

As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.

I think everything depends on money.

We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.

Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.

I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn’t know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.

Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.

I’ve battled with that type of stuff, but what I’ve found is that by doing stand-up, I’ve actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don’t have clinical, but I’ve definitely had my bouts with it.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Lets just say we often found ourselves in each others company and neither of us minded.

I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.