"You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence."

“In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.”

“There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.”

“My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.”

“My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Actually what is happening in the twenty-first century, this is the great century of migration, so we have people from all around the globe going all over the place, and they have to integrate into a society, that society that exists has to integrate with them. Both sides have to work at it. It's not a one-way thing.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“A night of sleep is as much preparation for the subsequent day's activity as it is recovery from that of the previous day.”

“As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.”

Source : "It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton" by Jim Al-Khalili, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2008.

“Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.”