I know people went to laugh at my bed and to jeer at it. Still, at least they actually went to see it.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

Starlight is best felt at noon...

When we are happy, we forget to eat. Then happiness is a primary need, even more important for life than nourishing the body.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Things happen in NFL games. I don't try to dwell on it. I try to say, It happened. Let's move onto the next one.

I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.

So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.

Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.

religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out