“I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.”

“I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.”

“I am the eye that makes light visible”

“He that say madness isn't contagioushas never spent his whole childhood locked upin a room without doors or windows where the grown-upslie chained together in their straitjacketsafter having tried to scratch each others eyes out andday and night planned to tear each other apart”

“The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation.”

“The development of an informal public life depends people finding and enjoying one another outside the cash nexus.”

“I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.”