"If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical."

“I think the simpler it is when you have a crazy character to play is almost more creepy and interesting.”

“Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.”

“It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.”

Source : Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins, Chris Malloy (2013). “180¡ South: Conquerors of the Useless”, p.103, Patagonia

“Olympics are probably the most important thing for Russians than any other athletes in the whole world. Since I was a little kid and since everybody was a little kid, their dream was playing in Olympic Games, especially if we have a chance to represent our country in Sochi, it's unbelievable and it's going to be a great thing.”

“A young pregnant wife has been hospitalized for a simple attack of appendicitis. The doctors had to apply ice to her stomach and when the treatments ended the doctors suggested that she abort the child, they told her it was the 'best solution' because the baby would be born with some disability but the young brave wife decided not to abort, and the child was born. That woman was my Mother and I was the child.”

“The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up..”

Source : "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America". Book by W.C. Seitz, p.58, In conversation with Seitz, 1983.

“We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have traffic jams, parking problems , and we-d do a lot better to look up a little bit because there is that great aerial highway that-s always ready to go, you Don't have to pave it and the benefits are very great.”

“It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you”