I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

I want to start where language ends.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

God wants us to do everything according to His plan

Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.

We need to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our schools, our roads, our basic science and research here in the United States.

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

Think more design less

My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution.

Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.