"The truth is that things were already going so poorly for me that nothing surprised me anymore. But then the BKA sent 20 agents to search my house."

“I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous illustration!' I want you to stop at the end of the book and say, 'This is a good book.”

“An artist is usually the handyman in the service of inspiration.”

“The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.”

“If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.”

“You really can't bring about anything new with art”

“There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.”

“Gratitude requires awareness and effort, not only to feel it but to express it. Frequently we are oblivious to the Lord's hand. We murmur, complain, resist, criticize; so often we are not grateful.”

“For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated.. ..I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that (his trip to India around 1975, fh) I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.”