I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.

In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye.

How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.

The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.

[There is] is all part of the whole neoliberal shift in the economy. But the parties have shifted to the right.

How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.