“If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.”

“I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.”

“As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.”

“My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.”

“The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.”

“I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.”

“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!”

“I have a family.”

“I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.”