Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch.

Architecture is not about space but about time.

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.

I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.

Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the system is just one thing, then it's closed and it eventually dies.

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent to performer.

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

The secret of the power of Christianity is not in its ethics. It is not in Christian ideas or philosophy . . .the secret of Christianity is found . . . in the Lord Jesus Christ.

To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!

We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies-- You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold

Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.