I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them