“But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.”

“I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.”

“The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.”

“Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.”

“Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. ”

“So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn't you have done that on a night I didn't have a date? That's most nights, in case you're curious.”