Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.