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.

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

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

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.