I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

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