"They flattered the ambitious and all the ills came gradually to a head. Murder drowning everything was allowed. Intriguers monopolised all the offices. Good men could only mutter for if they spoke they were lost. Hatred vengeance everything was permitted and nobody dared open his mouth..."

"Until the war as you know, my life was a mess. I wasted it. It was only at l'Estaque, when I thought things over, that I really understood Pissarro, a painter like myself.. .He was a determined man. I…"

"I’ve lost a lot of young, brilliant friends. Andy Wood and Layne and Jeff Buckley, who was a good friend, and Kurt , and Shannon Hoon was a friend, and Mike Starr was a friend, the list can kind of go…"

"Graffiti is like boxing. The people who do it 'professionally' tend to go round in circles pulling the same old moves all the time. The real entertainment takes place on Amateur's night. That's when y…"

"I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I. I must say that so often in earlier times when I saw people of the lower classes, simple manual labore…"