"My mother drove back to the intersection. "Who are you dating?" "Don't ask," I said. I wasn't dating anyone. I was fornicating with Batman."

“You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone”

Source : "Dean And Britta's Dean Wareham". Interview with Maggie Serote, www.avclub.com. June 4, 2009.

“You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.”

“If we lived correctly, there would be no need to concern ourselves with the bowel. However, most of us are not living right.”

“The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own.”

“Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.”

“There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.”

Source : Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.”