I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am.

It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

I believe that beauty is a basic service.

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.

I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

It's really exciting to know that people want to use the house as a house and want to live there although it hasn't been a used, occupied space in 50 or 60 years.

All history is modern history.

We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that our brethren experience.

You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are.

More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.

I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God.

Technically, I'm a New Yorker.

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.