I do not like to be unkind.
Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.
I think I am basically a happy person.
When I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time, and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
Do you realize that you can’t play the game of life with sweaty palms?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.
Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.
Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.
Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
I don’t care about anyone not liking me, you b**thes barely like yourselves.
Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ’til you give it away!
You cant change what you dont acknowledge.
If you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
A man is as old as his arteries.