“Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.” -Lester Bangs

“Smart alec, arrogant, quiche eating, chardonnay drinking, pinky finger pointing snobbery, fart blossom.” -Winston Peters

“New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.” -Peter Jackson

“We talked about the weather for a while, then I asked them what they thought about Los Angeles, a city without boundaries, which ate the desert, cut down the Joshua and the May Pole, and dreamt of becoming infinite. One of my new Llano companeros said that L.A. already was everywhere. They had watched it every night in San Salvador, in endless dubbed reruns of I Love Lucy and Starsky and Hutch, a city where everyone was young and rich and drove new cars and saw themselves on television.” -Mike Davis, City of Quartz

A selection of my painted suitcases will be on display at the Kunstverein in Hamburg all through December.

Go see “Beyond Elegance” new work by Todd James and Alexis Ross. 560 Washington Street, New York City. Runs through November 30, 2012.

“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.” -Harry Crews

“No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.” -Robert Wilson

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.” – D.H. Lawrence

“I don’t need anybody making a movie about me. I’ve been on television enough.” -Eddie Rothman