Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.

The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that my relatives could understand.

I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art.

Tomorrow always comes with a new hope for a new beginning. After all, it is a new day!

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box.

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

I've never been on a cruise.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.