Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.