“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”

“A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do. ”

“Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.”

“and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.”

“After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.”

“Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.”

“Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn.”