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

With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more art. I tell them to get up early and stay up late. I tell them not to quit. I tell them if somebody else is already making their work. My job is to be current with the discourse and not be an asshole. That's all I wanted in a professor.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

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.

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

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.