Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

kenangan itu cuma hantu di sudut pikir. selama kita diam dan ngga berbuat apa-apa, selamanya dia tetap jadi hantu, ngga akan pernah jadi kenyataan.

Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment

The exchange-value of money is the anticipated use-value of the things that can be obtained with it.

To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.

When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.

You've got to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself.

Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.