What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

I allow my inner joy wellspring to be unbounded and free, to power me up, and to keep me radiantly healthy!

Certain battles were won by retreating.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

Messi is out of this world. Scoring 86 goals this year... In 2012. What an incredible accomplishment

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

We don't have a manufacturing base. We don't have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them.

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.