My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

I'm retiring because my time is up.

When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job.

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.