Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

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.

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.

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.

All you have is today. Never mourn for tomorrow that is past and gone. You don’t deserve to starve today of its pleasure and treasure. Feel happy!

When you stop growing you start dying.

When I interviewed John McCain in 2000 about whether he had taken medication for his anger, I remember thinking, 'Let's see how this is going to work.'

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.

Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.

Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

Success without duplication is merely future failure in disguise.

When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.