Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

Buying art is not understanding art.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

Rarely does the truth set us free. Usually it chains us to the earth like a ghost.

A life without a VISION is a like a man who can see but does not know where he is going. That is what I call psychological blindness. Eyes wide open but does not know his destination.

...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.

We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience

Anytime I can add a smile to somebody's life that's all well and good, but I play the game to play the game.

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.