The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

It's very hard to try to be a cultural . . . people who organize cultural things . . . it's very complicated. And more so in a country like Guatemala.

You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it.

You never know who will see your images hanging. And I like that. I think you never really have control over the things that you do.

I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.

I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.

I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.

I was drowning, but all I needed to do was breathe.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.

Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the Internet.

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

Sometimes your best isn't good enough

We are missing Michael. But we do know we had him, and we are the world.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.

For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.