You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

People are always trading their excess for somebody else's excess. One country has a lot of aluminum so they trade aluminum for sugar. It's the law of supply and demand.