“Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.”

“I spent so much of my younger life drinking, and being drunk makes learning to be a grown-up kind of hard.”

“restaurant of her choice, she taught me the lesson of “proximity.” “You don’t have to throw people away,” she said. “You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.”

“...at the restaurant of her choice, she taught me the lesson of “proximity.” “You don’t have to throw people away,” she said. “You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.”

“That was the most offensive thing I've seen in 20 years of teaching — and that includes an elementary school production of Hair.”

“Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.”

“Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.”