I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent to performer.

Architecture is not about space but about time.

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.

I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.

Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch.

Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the system is just one thing, then it's closed and it eventually dies.

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.

Sacred-soul, sacred life.

There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.

Nothing scares me. I'll do anything.

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

I never doubted the issue from the beginning. I knew I was too good for Burns. I have forgotten more about fighting than Burns ever knew.

I can't do anything quietly anymore.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.