TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.

It's important to keep life simple, and if I'm traveling, I only can do a couple of things, and those are the things that I'm meant to be doing.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.