In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there.

I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones.

The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.

Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.

My purpose isn't to be confrontational. My purpose is to find out about the world and play myself against it to the extent that it is even conceivable.

I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.

"Hello" is pseudoscience. The only smart way to read it is not to believe in it, not to trust it, or to put yourself in it and imagine what's out there that you haven't been told or seen.

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

In a way I am saying the nation-state doesn't exist, borders don't exist, you can try going anywhere. It is a kind of pre-Internet consensus I always had in me.

There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.

It is those that are insulted by injustice that will refuse to be silenced.

You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can’t play it safe.

The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn’t given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.

And not one person would notice the grey parts of her until it was too late, because everyone falls for a pretty face.

I say, isn't that a shame [a trade with Japan], it's so one-sided.

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

Keep interested in others, keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young

Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.

You can't take my joy, because you didn't give it to me

Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.