There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.

The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, 'How can I ever have this experience again?' It was so mesmerizing, so complicated and so primordial; I could not believe it.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.