If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really appear to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn't stay there any longer and had to go somewhere else to make it. That's all. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts. Those who were making it in England, for example, did not get on the Mayflower. That's how the country was settled.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.