My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field.

My heavily-cleverly disguised low self-regard manifested itself in my constant showing off, my addiction for publicity, and my intolerable 'me-me-me' attitudes and actions. But it's done, isn't it? And no one can really change, can they? And, hey, it has been a lot of fun being the life-long irresponsible, snarky, nasty art scamp.

This is a very arcane (art category). You've got to know a lot about classical mythology that the common person or the TV-watching audience isn't going to know. Now if Claude Monet had done it, you bet you'd have a crowd around it.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.