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.

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.

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

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.

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself, as an actor.

I made The Instigator while I was homeless as a result of 9/11, and there was some stuff on there that was really raw and directly out of that experience

I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.