I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

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

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

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

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