Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned on me: These are memorials to people who wrote, so I should use their writing. That's how I started to quit.

There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

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

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.

A sense of duty imprisons you.