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

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.

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

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.

To have loved, to have lost and to be so empty when love is forgotten and not shared is an empty heart that's always whispering "fill me"~bns

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

Is Heather McDonald your best friend? You better get a new one.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy

Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

Kaylee do you know why you are here?" "Yeah. Because the doors are locked.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

Do the best you can and never stop.

…was designed to protect his heart, to bind me and bribe me to stay with him no matter what. He was giving everything he had.