You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.

I have frequently said, and I will repeat again, in the manner of any well-meaning seriality, that I'm interested in mixing the ingratiation of wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.