The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.