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.

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

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.

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.

Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.

Step by stepMoment by momentWe live throughAnother day

I never cheated on my wife. I took seriously those vows of celibacy.

Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.

I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

We're living in a den of thieves

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.