It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them!

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.

After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

102. After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

Each time you stare at a blank page, you end up staring at yourself.

Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.

If you are approachable, if you keep your line of communication open, then very often, you get to hear what you need to hear.

How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.

Mobile is the future, and there's no such thing as communication overload.

If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

Society matters not so much. Words are everything.

The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results.

No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.