“We don’t necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people.”

“Louisiana is a city that is largely underwater.”

“Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.”

“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”

“We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves, how much clean air do we need?”

“All art is an abstraction to some degree.”

“We’re seeing unfold a contemporary example of the age-old ambition of power and ideology to squelch and punish journalists who tell stories that make princes and priests uncomfortable. By princes and priests, I mean the people obsessed with control, using the government to threaten and intimidate. I mean the people who turn faith-based initiatives into a slush fund and encourage the pious to look heavenward and pray so as not to see the long arm of privilege and power picking their pockets. I mean the people who squelch free speech in an effort to obliterate dissent and consolidate their orthodoxy into the official view of reality from which any deviation becomes unpatriotic heresy.”

“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes. Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas.”

“I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.”

“Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.”

“When you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“If freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”