I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

Buying art is not understanding art.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

When the soul is set on fire, great things manifest.

Everybody's got a true home—maybe not where they're living, butwhere their heart lives.

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

Drug-use is a terminal disease.

When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!