Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

Art is an investigation.

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.

Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.

I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.