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If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity.

Raise boys and girls the same way.

SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.

What urge will save us now that sex won't?

I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider.

Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go.

A positive attitude means all the difference in the world.

Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age.

I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.

It's better to be a good person than a famous person.

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons

Exceptional people deserve special concessions.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.

On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

Stupid people shouldn't breed.

WITH BLEEDING INSIDE THE HEAD
THERE IS A METALLIC TASTE AT
THE BACK OF THE THROAT.

A little knowledge can go a long way.

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

She has no taste left to her and this makes it easier for me.
The color of her where she is inside is enough to make me kill her.

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.

Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.

All things are delicately interconnected.

A lot of professionals are crackpots.

A sense of duty imprisons you.

THE IMPULSE IS TO SQUEEZE AND
FONDLE BABY WILD ANIMALS
BUT THEN THEY'D BE BROKEN AND
WHAT GOOD WOULD THEY BE?

One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.

Go where people sleep and see if they are safe

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

I KNOW WHO YOU ARE
AND IT DOES ME
NO GOOD AT ALL

You are a victim of the rules you live by.

I SAW THEIR STUNNING BODIES GO SLACK
AND GET HAIR IN THE WRONG PLACES
AND I VOWED I WOULD NOT PERMIT
THAT TO HAPPEN TO ME.

THE FOND OLD COUPLE WAS
DISAPPEARING TOGETHER THROUGH
SUCCESSIVE AMPUTATIONS.

Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.

Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations

Fear is the greatest incapacitator.

When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.

You confuse me with something that is in you. I will not predict how you want to use me.

Being happy is more important than anything else.

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.

Going with the flow is soothing but risky.

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.

HOW CONCISE THAT YOU CAN CRY FROM
AWFUL WOUNDS, DESERTION, HAPPINESS,
MEMORIES, HUMILIATION,
DISAPPOINTMENT OR GRANDEUR.

There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women

Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.

I try to excite myself so I stay crazy.

Any surplus is immoral.

The most profound things are inexpressible.

Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway.

If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.

It's fun wandering around other people's minds.

Everyone's work is equally important.

Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.

Drama often obscures the real issues

Protect me from what I want.

Knowing yourself lets you understand others.

TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.

Remember you always have freedom of choice.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

A name means a lot just by itself.

Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

It's important to keep life simple, and if I'm traveling, I only can do a couple of things, and those are the things that I'm meant to be doing.

With you inside me comes the knowledge of my death.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

Expressing anger is necessary.

An elite is inevitable.

Boredom makes you do crazy things.

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.

IF THE HOUSE IS BITTER COLD,
ALL THE FLUIDS THEREIN,
IF NOT FROZEN, ARE STIFF AND SLOW.

Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force

The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Ensure that your life stays in flux.

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

With all the holes in you already there's no reason to define the outside environment as alien.

I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.

In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy.

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

WHAT A SHOCK WHEN THEY TELL YOU
IT WON'T HURT AND YOU ALMOST
TURN INSIDE OUT WHEN THEY BEGIN.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

IT CAN BE HELPFUL TO THINK OF
THEM EATING YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
AND OCCASIONALLY THROWING UP
AND GETTING BITS STUCK
IN THEIR NOSES.

When you start liking pain things start to get interesting.

IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY FEELING
WHEN PART OF YOUR BODY ARE
TOUCHED FOR THE FIRST TIME.
I'M THINKING OF THE SENSATIONS
FROM SEX AND SURGERY.

Company makes my day.