Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

You make history when you do business.