It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

Our generation of women is clearing the path for our daughters, granddaughters, women and girls down the line, to be safe to be the woman or girl they are.

Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.

I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war.

Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.