that darkest of syllables, death.

Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.

it requires a great deal more generosity to take than to give.

People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

I've gotten to the place where I find life too short for if-only.

Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right.

Love is recognition, perhaps the highest form of it. You.

If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now.

Our only fate is to lie in the beds that we make.

I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!

I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.

I do respect the political process and those that cover politics on a regular basis. It's just not for me.

Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.

I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.

Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.

Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.