These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

No mat­ter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.

At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.