I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

For all salespeople - Driving around and talking to people for a living, with no recognisable return for the time or money spent by your employer - is a job description that belongs in the past.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

It is such a teaching in itself for us, all of us, every moment when we're with anyone.

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.

For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasnt pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking.

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.

I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.