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

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.

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.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

Love is the surprising emotion that company builders cannot ignore.

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.

My goal is to make everybody skilled enough to be able to be their own doctor, their own nutritionist. Because all of us intrinsically have that inside of us.

I don't know what the long form of OK is. I wanna think it's okie dokie. 'I'm okie dokie. I'm a little shaken up, but I'm okie dokie.' 'The good news is, she's okie dokie. The surgery went fine.'

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.

A system devolving power to the regions is the route to a viable Iraq.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

Anyway, what does mad mean exactly?" Rami added quickly "Aren't we all a little mad? Don't we have to be somehat mad just to go on living, to go on hoping?