As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.

Architecture is not about space but about time.

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.

I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.

Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch.

Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the system is just one thing, then it's closed and it eventually dies.

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent to performer.

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.

Often in life those seemingly ordinary moments hold the most extraordinary meaning.

Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

Maybe I was little bit more aggressive than the average kid.

May the sun never set on American baseball.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.

America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes?

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.