"Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin."

-- Lucian Freud

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“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”
“Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.”
“I can kick your head off, but I can't, like, play a stupid little video game.”

Source : Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. April 28, 2003.
“Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe. For me itâ€™s more a synonym. I read a picture not for whatâ€™s really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.”

Source : "The Most Expensive Photograph In The World". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.
“Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.”
“A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results.”
“I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.”
“I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you.”

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