If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

I was living in New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks. And I remember, you know, in those weeks that followed, when none of us spoke about anything else really, a number of friends of mine, people I knew, including very experienced journalists, I heard them saying things like, well, now we understand what happened to you.

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.